Community Impact
Shenzhen, August 3, 2022 – BGI’s leading global position in life science research has been recognized in the 2022 Nature Index. BGI rose two places to 8th in the world among corporate institutions for its contribution to life science research and was the only Chinese corporate among the top 10....
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Human Health
A persistent or worsening cough. Bloody or rust-colored phlegm. Hoarseness. Chest pain. Shortness of breath. These are some common symptoms of lung cancer1, the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide2. In 2020, there were more than 2.2 million new...
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Biodiversity
Towering as high as 80 metres and forming much of the tropical rainforest canopy in Southeast Asia, dipterocarp trees – or the two-winged fruit tree – are distinguished by their leathery, evergreen leaves, clustered, fragrant flowers, and aromatic resins.A winged seed of tropical dipterocarp tree on...
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This month marks the 10th anniversary of GigaScience, BGI's flagship scientific journal published by their open access publishing division GigaScience Press. Born in an age of Big Data, GigaScience became the first journal to adopt a novel form of publication by providing all the suppo...
Shenzhen, July 19, 2022: An international team led by BGI-Research has shed new light on the evolutionary pathways that allowed some land animals to transition back into aquatic environments, particularly extremely cold ones such as the seas around Antarctica. The study was published today in N...
An international research team led by BGI has created the world’s first body-wide single-cell transcriptome atlas of 222,526 cells across 20 tissues/organs of the domestic pig, providing better insights into the biomedical similarity, as well as differences, between pigs and humans, and advancing th...
Do diseases have anything to do with longevity? The answer is yes and no. According to a recent study led by BGI-Research and published by Aging Cell, relationships between longevity and genetic risks of complex diseases are not always as expected, with increased disease genetic risks not neces...
Shenzhen, June 27th, 2022: BGI Group continues to lead in life sciences, making breakthroughs from single cell technology to spatiotemporal genomics, 22 years after participating in the Human Genome Project (HGP).BGI was formed to be a part of the HGP, contributing to the sequencing of genes and wor...
Shenzhen, June 16, 2022: International researchers led by China’s BGI-Research used single cell technology to study the brains of ants, explaining for the first time how the social division of labor within ant colonies reflects in the functional specialization of their brains at cellular levels.&nbs...