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On June 6th, the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to China, Maja Stefanović, held a ceremony at the Serbian embassy in Beijing to confer the "Order of the Serbian Flag, First Class" upon the BGI Group. This esteemed honour was bestowed on behalf of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vuči...
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June 2, 2023, Shenzhen – The world’s largest ever study of primates has been published by a collaboration of scientists from multiple countries including China, the U.S., Denmark, Spain, Germany, the UK, Canada, Japan, and India. By carrying out comparative research on the genome data of 50 species ...
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The international standard "ISO/TS 8392:2023 Genomics informatics - Description rules for genomic data for genetic detection products and services" was officially released recently. This standard is the world's first international standard that specifies requirements on the category de...
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Recently, Research.com, an internationally renowned academic platform, released the 2023 ranking of the world's best scientists. In the field of genetics, Yang Huanming, Co-founder of BGI Group, ranked 172nd in the world and 4th in China; Xu Xun, Director of BGI-Research, ranked 347th&...
On May 25, Luhut B. Pandjaitan, Coordinating Minister of Maritime and Investment Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, led a delegation to visit BGI Group in Shenzhen and signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) on partnership in marine genebank, research, talent culture and standard development with BG...
May 25, 2023 - The international standard, "ISO/TS 24420:2023 Biotechnology - Massively parallel DNA sequencing - General requirements for data processing of shotgun metagenomic sequences," jointly proposed by BGI-Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China National Research Institute of ...
From horse-drawn carriages to steam locomotives, from handwritten letters to radio waves, and from Turing machines to supercomputers, human technology has undergone continuous upgrades, liberating productivity and progressively narrowing the gap between reality and our dreams, or taking our dreams o...
(Continued from PART 1)The Monito del monte, a small marsupial native to South America, is one of the few remaining members of an ancient group of marsupials that once lived alongside dinosaurs. In a BGI-Research-led paper published in Cell in April 2022, researchers investigated the conflicting res...
Wang Jian, Co-founder and Chairman of BGI Group, recently visited The Republic of Uzbekistan and The Republic of Kazakhstan where he held meetings with senior government officials, participated in forums and gave lectures, and visited a number of science and medical research and public health facili...