Community Impact
On Nov 29, Wang Jian, Chairman and Co-founder of BGI Group, visited the University of Pécs, Hungary, and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the university rector, Dr. Attila Miseta, on strategic cooperation in advancing genomics research development and innovation. Hungary Deputy State ...
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Human Health
Repairing and regenerating injuries in the brain – the most complex organ in the human body – remains a challenge despite advances in medical science. BGI-Research and a team from the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital led by Professor Fei Jifeng, a pioneer in the field of sal...
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Biodiversity
The world’s first multi-omics cell map of the cerebral cortex of macaques, providing an important model for the study of human neuro development and neurological diseases, has been released by researchers from BGI-Research, Kunming University of Science and Technology, and the Allen Institute for Br...
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The world is grappling with a deepening food crisis, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war, as supply chains are severed and costs escalate. Climate shocks like drought and floods have also stoked global hunger, impacting food production, availability, and accessibility. Acco...
On October 7, 2022, researchers from BGI-Research and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have established for the first time that the genetic make-up of the plant – its genotype -- determines the phenotypic, or environmental, consequences of root-associated microbiota in foxtail millet. This ...
(Continued from PART 3) Question 3: Looking ahead, what is the direction of life science development? Dr. Xu Xun: We believe that in the next 20 years, genomics will still be a central part of life science. Genomics is a must for us to understand birth, aging, sickness and death and ultima...
(Continued from PART 2) Dr. Xu Xun: Single-cell sequencing has certain limitations as it requires tissue dissociation, and when cells dissociated, they lose spatial location information. As a result, when we see a group of specific type of cells, there is no way to explain what they do and...
(Continued from PART 1) Question 2: What progress and breakthroughs has life science research made today? Dr. Xu Xun: Single-cell sequencing and spatiotemporal omics technologies are two major research directions in today's global life sciences. Single-cell sequencing is a core br...
This year marks the 22nd anniversary of the assembly of the "working draft" of the human genome, and the 23rd anniversary of BGI's participation in the Human Genome Project (HGP) and our sequencing of 1% of the human genome. Innovations from that research continue t...