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Biodiversity: the foundation of discovery, Part 2

With the Earth at the tipping point for biodiversity loss, the importance of diversifying our biological knowledge and learning more about common species as well as understudied ones cannot be overstated. Read part 2 of this blog series to learn why at Shiru all sequences have value in playing differing roles in our discovery process and driving divergent avenues of ingredient discovery.

Chris Leber, PhD

Senior Data Scientist

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Shiru Scientists Present Paper to Discover Alternative Proteins at NeurIPS

Shiru's paper Protein Organization with Manifold Exploration & Spectral Clustering has been accepted at NeurIPS workshops (LMRL & MLPH) this year.

Geoffroy Dubourg-Felonneau

Machine Learning Lead

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Learning protein representations from structural predictions

In this blog post, we introduce why protein structure prediction (e.g. AlphaFold, RoseTTAFold) is important and how Shiru intends to leverage it to better predict food functions for proteins.

Geoffroy Dubourg-Felonneau

Machine Learning Lead

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Recombinant protein production in microbes

Recombinant proteins are widely used in life-saving medicines, with recombinant insulin being one of the biggest success stories. Recently, the use of recombinant proteins in food has been gaining traction. Read this new post by Swati Choudhary (Shiru's Head of Strain Engineering) to learn more about how we're using Flourish™, our cutting-edge ingredient Discovery platform, to identify and create novel recombinant proteins and why we think it's important to utilize this technology for creating a sustainable food system.

Swati Choudhary, PhD

Head of Strain Engineering

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Biodiversity: the foundation of discovery, Part 1

To find new functional ingredients for the plant-based industry, we've been hard at work growing our protein database of natural sources. While a database of 450 million proteins is certainly impressive, read on to learn why we think it's time for you to pay more attention to what is arguably the heart of our database: biodiversity.

Chris Leber, PhD

Senior Data Scientist

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Shiru Is Breaking Ground In Leveraging AlphaFold® To Discover Novel Functional Food Proteins

A look into how Shiru is utilizing AlphaFold to make a more sustainable food system.

Eyal Akiva, PhD

Staff Scientist, Bioinformatics

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What is Data Science?

At Shiru, data science is foundational in our efforts to discover plant proteins for functional food ingredients. Read on to learn more about what data science is and how we are leveraging it.

Chris Leber, PhD

Senior Data Scientist

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What is Precision Fermentation?

At Shiru, we have created a scalable alternative protein discovery platform that utilizes precision fermentation to produce and scale-up our novel ingredients. Read on to learn more about what precision fermentation is and how we are leveraging the process to create sustainable ingredients for the food industry.

Harley Greene

Senior Research Associate

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What is Strain Engineering?

At Shiru, we express diverse functional food proteins in microbial host strains and evaluate them to identify and create hero food ingredients. Read on to learn more about strain engineering and how we leverage biotechnology to convert proteins from ideas to functional food ingredients.

Swati Choudhary, PhD

Head of Strain Engineering

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What is High-Throughput Screening?

Shiru has developed a high-throughput protein production and characterization platform to quickly evaluate proteins for use in food applications. Read on to learn more about this unique process.