The vertebrate brain is the product of roughly 500 million years of evolution, yet the molecular architecture of the ancestral brain from which all vertebrate brains, including our own, descended has remained largely unresolved. On June 18, 2026, investigators at the Kunming Institut...
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BGI-Research and Zhejiang Lab have released Genos-Mutation and Genos-Reg, two new models that predict how DNA mutations and cellular states alter gene expression. Both build on the Genos genomic foundation model, released in 2025 and published in GigaScience, trained on 636 diverse human genomes ...
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A research team led by BGI-Research, in collaboration with Peking Union Medical College Hospital and other institutions, publishes in Nature Genetics on June 11 the most comprehensive genomic atlas of the human vaginal microbiome to date. The study presents the Global Vaginal Metagenome-Assembled...
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BGI has been recognized as the world's top-ranked corporate institution in biological sciences research, as well as the top-ranked institution in the Asia-Pacific region, in the newly released 2026 Nature Index rankings. This also marks the eleventh consecutive year that BGI has held the top...
An open-source foundation model that reads the genomes of human-associated microbes and converts them into reusable numerical signatures is now publicly available. Described in a recent bioRxiv preprint, Genos-m, developed by BGI-Research and Zhejiang Lab, places individual genes, whole genomes, ...
On May 27, 2026, a research team led by the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University and the State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies at BGI-Research, in collaboration with Zhejiang University School of Medicine and other institutions, reported in Nature a spatiot...
Recently, a multi-institutional team led by BGI-Research, together with Dalian University of Technology and other collaborators, published a study in Nature Communications titled: "The Extreme Environment Microbiome Catalog (EEMC): a global resource for microbial diversity and antimicrobial disco...
On April 16, a multi-institutional research team led by BGI-Research, the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (CEBSIT) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Monash University in Australia, and other collaborators, reports in Science the discovery of an opposing molecu...
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has officially released the groundbreaking international standard ISO/TS 20738:2026, titled “Genomics informatics — Requirements of data analysis for direct-to-consumer testing.” This milestone standard was co-led by BGI-Research and the Ch...