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 detectin...
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 in Wuhan ...
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 suspectedinfections can ...
Test kits for the novel coronavirus were jointly donated toJapan by BGI and two partners, the Mammoth Foundation and the ShenzhenFoundation for International Exchange and Cooperation, both based in Shenzhen,China. (Announcement from theChinese Embassy in Tokyo) Wang Jian, Co-founder and Chairman ...
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...
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 tes...