by Shiru | Feb 1, 2022 | Science & Technology
At Shiru, we are on a mission to identify proteins from plants that are functionally equivalent to animal-based food ingredients or synthetic ingredients. This task necessitates tackling the decades-old challenge of protein function prediction, linking protein...
by Shiru | Dec 10, 2021 | Science & Technology
Shiru is proud to present our paper to discover alternative food proteins at NeuroIPS this year! In this paper, we present a method to provide a biologically meaningful representation of the space of protein sequences. While billions of protein sequences are...
by Shiru | Oct 26, 2021 | Science & Technology
Data science is a branch of science for deriving knowledge from data. Practitioners of data science seek to uncover patterns in data to inform our understanding of measurable reality. A variety of tools ranging from classical statistical techniques to modern deep...
by Shiru | Oct 26, 2021 | Science & Technology
Fermentation is the process by which living microorganisms break down organic compounds (i.e. sugars) into useful components. One of the most well-known fermentation processes is used by beer and wine makers to convert sugar into alcoholic beverages (i.e....
by Shiru | Oct 26, 2021 | Science & Technology
Microbial strain engineering is the modification of microbial cells to produce target products, such as proteins of interest. Strain engineering is an applied biological science, and at Shiru we use our knowledge of biological systems along with concepts from...
by Shiru | Oct 26, 2021 | Science & Technology
Humans have evolved to crave animal proteins, but the environmental consequences of raising animals at industrial scale are difficult to ignore. What if we could find proteins with qualities exceeding animal-derived products, while employing more environmentally...
