Qingdao, China, April 26, 2021 – BGI, a leading life science organization, is showcasing its COVID-19 anti-pandemic technology including the Huo-Yan Laboratory solutions and high-throughput sample preparation system at the 2021 SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) International Investment and ...
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On February 15, President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia honored BGI Group with the Order of the Serbian Flag, First Class, for their assistance in Serbia’s fight against COVID-19. In 2020, BGI Group helped Serbia build two state-of-the-art high-throughput "Huo-Yan (Fire-Eye) Laboratories” for COVID-...
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The iconic platypus and echidna (monotremes) display a unique mix of mammalian and reptilian features and form the most distantly related group of living mammals. One of their most well-known features is that they lay eggs to produce offspring while secret milk to feed them. Monotremes als...
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On April 8th, a live video link connectedSerbia and three cities in China for a special online signing ceremony. The Serbian government and BGI signed anagreement entrusting BGI to build two "Huo-Yan" (“Fire Eye”) COVID-19testing labs in Serbia, one in the capital city of Belgrade and anoth...
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; March 29, 2020: Group 42 (G42), the leading technology company based in Abu Dhabi, and global genomics leader BGI announced today the launch of a new massive-throughput laboratory built to address the need for population-scale detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 i...
Test kits for the novel coronavirus were jointly donated to Japan by BGI and two partners, the Mammoth Foundation and the Shenzhen Foundation for International Exchange and Cooperation, both based in Shenzhen, China. (Announcement from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo) ...
On February 5, the Huo-Yan Laboratory, an emergency test laboratory runby BGI and designed to handle 10,000 samples daily to detect 2019-nCoV,officially started trial operation in Wuhan. The lab will greatly increase the speed of testing novelcoronavirus cases so that suspectedinfecti...
BGI is bringing its full genomics expertise and resources to the front lines in the fight against the 2019 novel coronavirus. BGI has scaled up production of its new real-time fluorescent RT-PCR kits for detecting the virus, known as 2019-nCoV, donating 20,000 kits to support the response...
As widely reported in the media, a new coronavirus has been identified in China, which is currently being called “2019 novel coronavirus” or “2019-nCoV.” Building on BGI’s history of developing solutions for rapid pathogen detection, BGI has developed a real-time fluorescent RT-PCR kit for detect...