TORONTO, May 13, 2020 – Today, Sinai Health, a significant centre for COVID-19 testing in Canada, will receive a donation from The Mammoth Foundation of key laboratory equipment to increase its COVID-19 detection capability. The Mammoth Foundation has donated testing e...
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On April 8th, a live video link connected Serbia and three cities in China for a special online signing ceremony. The Serbian government and BGI signed an agreement entrusting BGI to build two "Huo-Yan" (“Fire Eye”) COVID-19 testing labs in Serbia, one in the capital city of Belgrade and...
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; March 29, 2020: Group 42 (G42), the leading technology company based in Abu Dhabi, and global genomics leader BGI announced today the launch of a new massive-throughput laboratory built to address the need for population-scale detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 i...
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Brisbane, Australia; April 29, 2020 – Federal Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP, and Minderoo Foundation Chairman, Dr Andrew Forrest AO, have announced the ground-breaking partnership formed between the Australian Federal Government and Minderoo Foundation to secure an abundance of CO...
Test kits for the novel coronavirus were jointly donated to Japan by BGI and two partners, the Mammoth Foundation and the Shenzhen Foundation for International Exchange and Cooperation, both based in Shenzhen, China. (Announcement from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo) ...
On February 5, the Huo-Yan Laboratory, an emergency test laboratory run by BGI and designed to handle 10,000 samples daily to detect 2019-nCoV, officially started trial operation in Wuhan. The lab will greatly increase the speed of testing novel coronavirus cases so that suspected ...
BGI is bringing its full genomics expertise and resources to the front lines in the fight against the 2019 novel coronavirus. BGI has scaled up production of its new real-time fluorescent RT-PCR kits for detecting the virus, known as 2019-nCoV, donating 20,000 kits to support the response...
As widely reported in the media, a new coronavirus has been identified in China, which is currently being called “2019 novel coronavirus” or “2019-nCoV.” Building on BGI’s history of developing solutions for rapid pathogen detection, BGI has developed a real-time fluorescent RT-PCR kit for detect...
On December 10th His Excellency Sheikh Abdulla Bin Mohamed Al Hamed, Chairman of the Department of Health -- Abu Dhabi, officially announced the launch of the world 's most comprehensive genome program, in which BGI Group will export its gene sequencing technology for the plan. The innovatio...