About Ailurus

We make biology a general-purpose technology.
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Our vision

Ailurus is a biocomputer company. Our mission is to make biology a general-purpose technology, as easy to use as modern computers.

Programming Biology, the technology of everything

Information, matter and energy compose the universe we live in. Imagine if you knew the grammar to transform them all at once, what would you do?

Such power is already written in our DNA, literally...

Biology is probably the only thing with such versatility and efficacy to reform reality.

Therefore, Ailurus' mission is to ensure this general purpose "technology" - by which we mean an approach to creating (almost) any conceivable system with living things - can be mastered by human beings, and benefits our planet.

Our approach

Like software engineers write codes running semiconductors, we write codes to instruct living systems. These biological program turns living cells into a "computer", and transform workflows in life sciences and bioproductions.

Biocomputer, superpower computation made of living creatures

To fulfill our mission, we need a unified approach to program biology, which is equivalent to design a general-purpose computer, coding A/T/G/C instead of 0/1. Instead of simulating biology on semiconductors, we believe a better solution is to have those operations and computations running on the biological materials and processes themselves. It means the next superpower computer should be a "biocomputer".

To start with, we design special-purpose systems as microcontrollers of cells, turning these cells into micron-scale laboratory that operates research and production tasks used to be handled by human and machines. With language AI as a copilot, we could accelerate biology as fast as the IT industry today, using these micro-biocomputers. We believe that in this way, the enormous amount of knowledge we generate for our users and ourselves, will eventually lead us to general biocomputing.

In summary, we work on building the architecture and language to program biology, starting from biological programming solutions that transform life science workflows. Next, we will build a single system that runs all the programs, i.e. a "Biocomputer".

Learn more at our blog - Planning for biology as a GPT

Our work

We develop innovative technologies that program cells to automate and control biological processes, transforming biology into a system of programmable, automated operation and computations.
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Research

We stand at the intersection between technology and art of sciences. We work on research projects across from artificial cells to artificial intelligence, from control theory to dynamical systems.
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TEARS & biocondensates

Transcriptionally Engineered Addressable RNA Solvents, one of the first synthetic membrane-less organelles, also the first reported liquid-liquid phase separation in bacteria.
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PandaPure®

With PandaPure, protein research feels easier and gets done faster. Leveraging synthetic organelle technologies, PandaPure enables in situ expression and purification protein automatically by cells.
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AI + Bio

Since 2016, Ailurus' members have applied machine learning to decode massive amount of data acquired from engineered biological systems. With cell-based assays, Ailurus has collected millions of wet-lab data.