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.” ...
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On November 20, scientists from BGI-Research, in collaboration with the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, report new hologenomic insights into how a deep-sea black coral survives in permanent ...
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Yunnan University and BGI-Research have successfully constructed a reference set of 14,062 gut microbiota from animals living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, revealing rich microbial resources. The results were reported online on November 20, 2025, in the scientific journal Microbiome in a paper ti...
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Researchers from the 10,000 Fish Genomes Project (Fish10K) consortium report a comprehensive genomic resource spanning 464 teleost fish species, including 110 newly assembled genomes that fill three previously unsampled orders. The study, accepted by The Innovation (IF=25.7), brings fish comparat...
It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of Nobel prize-winning scientist James Watson, who, together with Francis Crick, identified the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953. In remembrance of Dr. James D. Watson, 1928-2025 (Credit: The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). ...
On October 23, 2025, at the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Genomics (ICG-20) in Hangzhou, BGI-Research and Zhejiang Lab announced the release of Genos, an open-source Human-Centric genomic foundation model that learns directly from high-quality human genomes representing g...
In the cover story of the latest issue of Nature Genetics, researchers from Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden and BGI-Research, together with international partners, report the most extensive genomic resource yet assembled for bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts), descendants of ances...
How can a single plant cell seemingly “rewind time” and regenerate into a whole new plant? It sounds like science fiction, but researchers have now uncovered the science behind this incredible ability. In a groundbreaking study published in Cell on September 16, an international team from Shandon...
Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues represent the predominant sample conservation method in clinical practice, yet degraded and crosslinked RNA has long limited whole-transcriptome analysis and spatial context. On August 28, in Cell, researchers at BGI-Research and collaborating c...