About
Make biology a general-purpose technology

Our vision

Ailurus is a biocomputer company. We work on building the architecture and language to program biology.
Our mission is to make biology a general-purpose technology, as easy to use as 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

We harness the power of programming biology, to build tools that can reinvent biological research workflows.
At the end, we aim to build a single instrument to run all the programs, i.e. a "Biocomputer".

Biocomputer, built with synthetic biology and AI

To fulfill our mission, we need a unified approach to program biology, whose architecture can be equivalent to a general-purpose computer. We believe it's best to have such a superpower computer built with biological material itself, which means, it should be a "biocomputer".

To start with, we design special-purpose biocomputing systems as microcontrollers of cells. Then these cells can act as a microscale laboratory that operates R&D and production tasks with high efficiency. Together with AI to streamline the process, we aim to accelerate the speed of R&D in biology as fast as the IT industry today. We believe that in this way, the enormous amounts of knowledge we generate for our users and ourselves, will eventually lead us to general biocomputing.

Our work

Research and development

Research

We study sciences and technologies about artificial cells, biocomputing, and AI technologies. Together, we work on how to automate biological research to lay a foundation for the general-purpose biocomputers.

Highlights

Breaking kingdoms: making synthetic organelles in bacteria with RNAs

It has been taught for decades, "bacteria have no organelle". With synthetic biology, we manage to break this orthodox by constructing synthetic organelles in E. coli, reminiscent of eukaryotic ones.

Product

PandaPure

PandaPure® offers your next-level experiences of protein research with cell programming.

Using synthetic organelle technologies, PandaPure® enables protein expression and purification without the need for laborious chromatography, buffer exchange and protease-mediated tag removal. In addition, those eukaryotic-like organelles could further promote better folding and stability, and reduce cell burden and toxicity.

With PandaPure®, you can now obtain pure proteins with the fewest efforts.

Service

AI + Bio

Synthetic biology and machine learning together is a good match. Deep learning can be better at deciphering the complex logics behind biology, and synthetic biology can collect large data outside of nature to fuel AI models. Ailurus' members have started to converge AI and Bio since 2016. Up to date, Ailurus has collected millions of strains and data, and a handful of knowledge on how to maximize the power of both biology and machines.

Get access to our knowledge and latest technologies, and accelerate your research by 10x.