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Biodiversity
Antarctic krill may be small shrimp-like crustaceans but they have the largest biomass of any wild animal species on earth, and are an indispensable part of the Southern Ocean ecosystem. With a body length of 6cm and weighing up to two grams, this fundamental prey species punches way abov...
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Community Impact
Shenzhen, February 28 – Naleya Genomics Indonesia (NGI), a joint venture of BGI Group’s subsidiary, recently revealed its new clinical testing laboratory in Indonesia, which aims to enhance local precision medicine and public health development. During the opening ceremony, an MoU was sign...
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Brisbane, 20 October 2022 – BGI Australia’s lab has achieved accreditation from the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) to perform clinical Whole Exome Sequencing in Australia, paving the way for the global life sciences company to provide clinical sequencing services for identif...
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...