News release Leading biotech startup Shiru commercializes the first food ingredient developed using its AI-powered technology platform Shiru’s novel, plant protein-based fat ingredient, OleoPro™, works just like animal fat – without the negative environmental costs or...
Shiru AI researchers present a new state-of-the-art method of predicting protein localization at NeurIPS, the leading conference of the AI research community. The simple and effective method combines Language Models (LM) and Graph Neural Networks (GNN) to predict...
As food brands spin up “idea factories”, at Shiru the future is already here. Companies like Impossible Foods and Perfect Day are true pioneers of the plant-based food industry. They have trailblazed new regulatory, market, and technical territory. They’ve shown us...
In order to continue feeding the growing population, we need to find different avenues to produce and create new nutritious food products in a more sustainable way. At Shiru, we are driving sustainability by finding and producing novel plant-based proteins through our...
Re-Introduction In Part 1 of this blog post, we discussed the importance of biodiversity in driving our process of discovering new and innovative functional protein ingredients at Shiru. We then explored how protein diversity, as measured by protein...
An Introduction to Biodiversity in Proteins Here at Shiru, we discover proteins from plants and other natural sources that can serve as plant-based functional food ingredients. Our discovery process is fueled by data, and we have lots of it; our ever-growing...
