Community Impact
On Nov 29, Wang Jian, Chairman and Co-founder of BGI Group, visited the University of Pécs, Hungary, and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the university rector, Dr. Attila Miseta, on strategic cooperation in advancing genomics research development and innovation. Hungary Deputy State ...
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Human Health
Repairing and regenerating injuries in the brain – the most complex organ in the human body – remains a challenge despite advances in medical science. BGI-Research and a team from the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital led by Professor Fei Jifeng, a pioneer in the field of sal...
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Biodiversity
The world’s first multi-omics cell map of the cerebral cortex of macaques, providing an important model for the study of human neuro development and neurological diseases, has been released by researchers from BGI-Research, Kunming University of Science and Technology, and the Allen Institute for Br...
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BGI Group signed three Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) in the lead up to the G20 Summit in Bali with the Indonesian Ministry of Health, the University of Indonesia and the Del Institute of Technology (Institut Teknologi Del). The MOUs cover genomics development initiatives, construction of relat...
Traveling with small children in a car has become a lot safer since the International Organization on Standardization (ISO) published its standard ISO 13216 (often called ISOFIX) in 1999, creating a universal system for anchoring child restraint systems to vehicles so that they didn’t move around or...
About 350 years ago, man first observed the basic function unit of life, the cell, through a microscope. However, at that time it was only possible to observe the structure of the cells.Today, with BGI-Research’s Stereo-seq technology, the latest in spatial multiomics technology, we can see what typ...
For Liu Huan, Chief Scientist at BGI-Research, agriculture is more than just a science – it’s a pivotal tool that has the potential to revolutionize crop production and yields, thereby helping to ease a deepening global food crisis caused by climate shocks and geopolitical conflicts.Dr. Liu Huan int...
After a stringent process spanning over 2 years, BGI Australia’s laboratory in Queensland has gained National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) accreditation for clinical whole exome sequencing. The NATA accreditation adopts the internationally-recognised ISO 15189 and meets the acc...
Brisbane, 20 October 2022 – BGI Australia’s lab has achieved accreditation from the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) to perform clinical Whole Exome Sequencing in Australia, paving the way for the global life sciences company to provide clinical sequencing services for identif...