Ten researchers from BGI have been named to the 2026 World’s Top 2% Scientists annual list, highlighting the organization’s sustained research output and academic influence in the life sciences. Ten BGI researchers named to 2026 World’s Top 2% Scientists List. ...
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On October 6, investigators at Yazhouwan National Laboratory, BGI-Research, and collaborating institutions reported in Cell a spatiotemporal atlas of rice that records which genes are active, in which cells, and where, from germinating seed to maturing grain. It suggests that one regulator direct...
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On September 18, investigators from the State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies at BGI-Research, Shanxi Medical University and partner institutes report in Science Advances that the blood of people with a regular exercise habit carries a distinctive molecular signature, and th...
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As whole-genome sequencing becomes increasingly accessible, one of the biggest challenges in precision medicine is no longer generating genomic data, but identifying which genetic changes truly matter for disease. Traditional genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, have discovered many disease-...
Recently, investigators at the State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies at BGI-Research, Pu’er University, and The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University report in Cell Reports that reading gut bacterial genomes end to end with CycloneSEQ long reads s...
On August 27, researchers from the State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies at BGI-Research, Zhejiang University, the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Marquette University, and collaborating institutions report in Science a compara...
On August 18, 2026, researchers from State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies at BGI-Research, Jilin University, and Jinan University report in Cell a cell-by-cell survey of the aging primate brain showing that the heaviest burden of age-related gene-expression c...
Recently, researchers at BGI-Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and collaborating institutions, published the second stage results of the Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research (MEER) Project in Cell Ho...
Recently, investigators from multiple institutes including the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), BGI Bioverse, Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, and Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands outline in Molecular Plant a strategic framework fo...