Part 1 21 Years Ago The 20th century was the peak of human civilization in the 55 million years of its history. The atomic bomb demonstrated the mighty power of the smallest element of our nature and told us how vulnerable the human world could be. The moon-landing pushed our fronti...
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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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Brisbane, Australia; April 29, 2020 – Federal Minister for Health,the Hon Greg Hunt MP, and Minderoo Foundation Chairman, Dr Andrew Forrest AO,have announced the ground-breaking partnership formed between theAustralian Federal Government and Minderoo Foundation to secure an abundance ofCOVID-19 t...
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...