Over a 10-year period, the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) aims to do for biology what the Human Genome Project (HGP) did for mankind. We are currently in the fourth year of this amazing initiative which brings together 44 institutions, including BGI-Research and the China National GeneBank, from 22 ...
All this experience has been came to bear during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tremendous experience aggregated across so many public health crises around the world will be applied to help future public health emergencies. As BGI Group CEO, Yin Ye, explains, “We have developed a tradition of public ser...
Often, BGI teams find themselves in potentially dangerous situations. During the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, a team of BGI professionals traveled to the capital of Sierra Leone to assist in sample testing, technical support and training. BGI also developed a rapid Ebola detection r...
Following the outbreak of a deadly E-Coli epidemic in Germany in 2011, BGI completed the genome sequencing and published the data within five days, then developed a diagnostic kit and freely provided the scientific data and information to the international community. This helped to speed up the cont...
This included donations through the Mammoth Foundation, co-founded by BGI and other organizations, of nucleic acid detection kits to nearly 40 countries and organizations, and assistance to Serbia, Italy, Canada, France, Latvia, and Greece to upgrade their SARS-CoV-2 testing laboratories. While the ...
The Olympics may be over but there will be plenty of memories, not least of Bing Dwen Dwen the cuddly panda awarded to winning athletes on the medals podium and the official mascot of Beijing 2022. An animated panda, named Bing Dwen Dwen, is selected as the official mascot for Beijing 2022 Wint...