Hemogen Therapeutic, a gene therapy company and subsidiary of BGI Group, in collaboration with Shenzhen Children’s Hospital, has published clinical research in the international, peer‑reviewed journal Molecular Therapy on hemobeglogene autotemcel (hemo-cel), an investigational gene therapy for tr...
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On February 23, 2026, a research team from the State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies at BGI-Research reports in Nature Communications an end-to-end nanopore sensing workflow designed to profile peptides and support protein identification at high throughput. By combining a st...
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Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is made of tiny DNA fragments released into the bloodstream when cells break down. Because these fragments carry valuable biological signals, cfDNA has become a cornerstone of modern “liquid biopsy” approaches, including non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and emerging tool...
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Two China national standards proposed and drafted under the leadership of BGI-Research have been officially released: GB/T 46927-2025, "Spatio-temporal omics—Specification for dataset format", and GB/T 46935-2025, "Single-cell sequencing—Dataset of single cell transcriptome". These standards will...
Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects approximately 30% of the global population and can progress to fibrosis and liver cancer. With limited pharmaceutical options targeting its underlying biology, researchers have increasingly explored the gut–liver axis. ...
Elsevier, a global leader in scientific publishing and analytics, today officially released its 2025 "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list, recognizing the significant contributions of leading scholars in China. For the 12th consecutive year, researchers from BGI Group have been selected, under...
Bryophytes—comprising liverworts, mosses, and hornworts—were among the earliest plant groups to adapt to terrestrial environments during the process of land colonization. Marchantia polymorpha, a representative liverwort, serves as an ideal model for exploring the origin and evolution of sexual r...
A research team led by BGI-Research reports in Communications Medicine the first comprehensive whole-genome analysis of DNA methylation patterns in plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from 98 generally healthy adults aged 22-77. DNA methylation, chemical modifications at CpG dinucleotide si...
On January 8, 2026, a multi-institutional research team led by the State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies (initiated by BGI-Research), working with clinical and academic partners including Ruijin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanx...