Patent ID: 9328337
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: C12N,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing non-living organic, metallorganic or biological material using a sample of metamorphic, igneous, sedimentary, or mineral rock, derived from chondrites, octahedrites, enstatitic olivines, or rock of similar origin comprising the following steps: providing a rock from which a fragment is to be obtained, the rock characterized by a first exposed surface prior to obtaining the fragment; heating the rock in a sterilizing temperature range for at least 5 minutes to provide a sterilized sample of the rock along the first exposed surface extending to a depth below the first exposed surface; removing a portion of the sterilized sample by obtaining a fragment from only a portion of the sterilized sample extending from the sterilized first exposed surface to the depth below the first exposed surface in a sterile atmosphere, by scraping or excavating with a needle or any other suitable acuminated tools; putting the fragment on a previously sterilized solid growth medium made of hydrolysates of natural products or synthetic derivatives thereof in the presence of oxygen at room temperature; incubating the fragment on the solid growth medium in the complete absence of living material for a desired incubation time; and when material consisting entirely of non-living material is generated on a surface of the fragment during or after the step of incubating, isolating the non-living material from the solid nutrient medium and optionally further analyzing it, wherein the step of incubating consists only of growing the fragment on the solid growth medium.