Projects
Projects
We partner with businesses across industries to create high-value products that solve social challenges, driving the growth of the bio industry and the realization of a bioeconomy society.
Food & Agri
Food & Agri
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Data-Driven Breeding of Red Shiso (Digital Breeding)
Together with Mishima Foods and Hiroshima University, we sequenced approximately 99% of the red shiso genome (approx. 1.26 billion base pairs) at the chromosome level, determining genome sequence information for digital breeding.
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Egg for all — eggs that everyone can eat
For people with egg allergies — research and development of allergy-reduced eggs in which ovomucoid, one of the major allergens, has been removed.
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Turning Food Waste into a Valuable Resource
In collaboration with Yanmar Holdings and Hiroshima University, we use metagenomic analysis to advance the recycling of food waste and other unutilized organic matter, aiming to establish a resource-circular food production system.
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Genomic Data Analysis Opens the Future of Aquaculture
Together with FOOD & LIFE COMPANIES, the operator of Sushiro, Marine Birth, and Hiroshima University, we are pursuing data-driven selective breeding through genomic analysis to develop superior yellowtail seedlings and other species and achieve sustainable aquaculture.
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Finding Candidate Genes for Breeding and Ingredient Development Through Meta-Analysis of Public Data
By reanalyzing public RNA-seq data with a common procedure, we narrowed down candidate stress-tolerance markers in turfgrass and candidate markers for evaluating functional ingredients, without running new experiments.
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Environment & Energy
Environment & Energy
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Next-Generation Sewage Treatment Through Metagenomic Analysis
In partnership with the City of Higashi-Hiroshima, Kanadevia, and Hiroshima University, we use metagenomic analysis (Bio-DX) to visualize the microbiome inside sewage treatment facilities, improving operating efficiency and cutting electricity use and CO₂ emissions, with an eye toward rolling out the "Higashi-Hiroshima model" nationwide and globally.
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Carbon Recycling with Microalgae
With Tsuneishi Kamtecs, Phytolipid Technologies, and Leave a Nest, we began a demonstration project in October 2025 that grows microalgae outdoors on factory flue gas. PtBio analyzes genes to help develop strains that hold up in outdoor conditions.
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