Qingdao, China, April 26, 2021 – BGI, a leading life science organization, is showcasing its COVID-19 anti-pandemic technology including the Huo-Yan Laboratory solutions and high-throughput sample preparation system at the 2021 SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) International Investment and ...
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On February 15, President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia honored BGI Group with the Order of the Serbian Flag, First Class, for their assistance in Serbia’s fight against COVID-19. In 2020, BGI Group helped Serbia build two state-of-the-art high-throughput "Huo-Yan (Fire-Eye) Laboratories” for COVID-...
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The iconic platypus and echidna (monotremes) display a unique mix of mammalian and reptilian features and form the most distantly related group of living mammals. One of their most well-known features is that they lay eggs to produce offspring while secret milk to feed them. Monotremes als...
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On November 10, 2020, Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital and BGI Research published a titled “Initial whole-genome sequencing and analysis of the host genetic” in the internationally renowned academic journal “Cell Discovery”. The research results of "contribution to COVID-19 severity and susceptib...
Utrecht and Qingdao, Sep 4th, 2020 - HubrechtOrganoid Technology (HUB) and BGI-Qingdao announced today that they have signeda Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly establish a Next GenerationDiagnostics (NGD) center to improve personalized care, better treatments andcure as well as faster ...
Last month, Sweden's Public Health Agency announced that two laboratories discovered an RT- PCR kit for SARS-CoV-2 detection had returned around 3,700 false-positive results. The agency expressed concerns that the kits from BGI Genomics could not distinguish between very low levels of the virus...
We are puzzled by and greatly regret the decision of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) under the U.S. Department of Commerce to include two BGI Group entities on the list of Chinese entities facing sanctions. BGI Group does not engage in unethical practices and does not provide gene...
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...
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 theAustralian Federal Government and Minderoo Foundation to secure an abundance ofCOVID-19 t...