Kelvin Genetics

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Kelvin Genetics was considered a small, but respected, firm in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. It handled many classified and experimental programs for the government and the military.

About

• The U.S. Army sponsored the program.
• DARPA supervises the activities of the program.
• Doctors Walter Bishop and William Bell played a significant role in the research and development of the program.
• The experiments at Kelvin dealt with creating a single animal using DNA from several sources.
• Five young scientists were identified as working at Kelvin.
• In Unleashed, Walter reveals that while at Kelvin, he was working on developing a multi-genetics hybrid creature.
• In Walter's Lab Notes from Bad Dreams, a newspaper clipping collected from Nick Lane's apartment reports that Kelvin was closing after 22 years and had been involved with over 100 projects - presumably for the Department of Defense.

Trivia

• In original early scripting - the program was referred to as Kelvin Lab.
• Kelvin is a name J.J. Abrams' uses in many projects he is involved in.

• Kelvin is the name of the spaceship seen in the beginning of Abrams' new film, Star Trek.
• In Abrams' television show, LOST, Kelvin is the name of a character that spent time in the Swan Station with Desmond, prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815.