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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
A recent study led by BGI-Research, titled "Tracing the tissue origin of cell-free DNA through open chromatin footprint," has been published online in the renowned journal Communications Biology. In this study, researchers introduced a novel approach known as the Tissue Contribution ...
A multi-institutional team led by BGI-Research, Sun Yat-sen University, and others—working across field surveillance, genomics, and infectious-disease ecology — reports in Nature Communications a detailed map of the infectome of small mammals, specifically rats and shrews that often live alongsid...
Sir Rory Collins delivered a speech at the ICG-20 conference in Hangzhou. (Credit: ICG-20 Committee) “Science moves forward through collaboration, not just in the academic sector in different universities, but collaboration in and with industry across different parts of the world.” ...