Community Impact
With great pleasure and honor, the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Genomics (ICG) would like to cordially invite you to join us for the 19th Annual Meeting of ICG (ICG-19), which will take place from November 21st to 24th, 2024, at the BGI Center, BGI...
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Community Impact
In October 2024, BGI Group CEO and Executive Director Yin Ye visited Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya, announcing plans to deepen exchanges and cooperation with these African countries in various fields, including perennial rice, public health, and talent development.Promoting Perennial RiceOn Oc...
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Human Health
Research provides valuable insights into the human nasal microbiome, revealing sex-specific differences and offering potential new avenues for developing treatments against respiratory diseases.A research team led by BGI-Research has created the most extensive catalog of the human nasal microbiome t...
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In the world of genetics, it is crucial to understand where genes are active within tissues. This need has given rise to a technology known as spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT), which merges gene expression data with precise cell locations within tissues. However, a persistent challenge in th...
In September, over 30 government officials and technicians from the agricultural sector in nine countries, including Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Ghana, gathered at the BGI Center in Shenzhen for a week-long training session named the “2024 Seminar for Perennial Rice Production for African Countries.”Grou...
Since its founding in 1999, BGI has been committed to using its scientific knowledge, research, solutions and technology for the good of humankind, captured in its mission of ‘Omics for All’. This has kept the company in the frontline of disease identification and response from SARS to COVID-19, and...
On September 26, in a groundbreaking study published in Science, comprehensive single-cell spatial transcriptomic atlases of the cerebellar cortex across multiple species has been unveiled, offering new insights into the complexity and evolutionary adaptations of this critical brain region. Thi...
On September 19, Kunsulu Zakarya, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Science and Innovation, and Akmaral Alnazarova, Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, led a delegation to visit the BGI Group headquarters. The delegation included representatives from Kazakhstan ...
Africa is the world’s second largest continent after Asia and stretches 5,000 miles from its most northerly point above the equator to its most southerly point below the equator. Its 54 countries cover a land area of 11.7 million square miles and this size brings an enormous diversity in terms ...