Bryophytes—comprising liverworts, mosses, and hornworts—were among the earliest plant groups to adapt to terrestrial environments during the process of land colonization. Marchantia polymorpha, a representative liverwort, serves as an ideal model for exploring the origin and evolution of sexual r...
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A research team led by BGI-Research reports in Communications Medicine the first comprehensive whole-genome analysis of DNA methylation patterns in plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from 98 generally healthy adults aged 22-77. DNA methylation, chemical modifications at CpG dinucleotide si...
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On January 8, 2026, a multi-institutional research team led by the State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies (initiated by BGI-Research), working with clinical and academic partners including Ruijin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanx...
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A recent study led by BGI-Research, titled "Tracing the tissue origin of cell-free DNA through open chromatin footprint," has been published online in the renowned journal Communications Biology. In this study, researchers introduced a novel approach known as the Tissue Contribution ...
A multi-institutional team led by BGI-Research, Sun Yat-sen University, and others—working across field surveillance, genomics, and infectious-disease ecology — reports in Nature Communications a detailed map of the infectome of small mammals, specifically rats and shrews that often live alongsid...
Sir Rory Collins delivered a speech at the ICG-20 conference in Hangzhou. (Credit: ICG-20 Committee) “Science moves forward through collaboration, not just in the academic sector in different universities, but collaboration in and with industry across different parts of the world.” ...
On November 20, scientists from BGI-Research, in collaboration with the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, report new hologenomic insights into how a deep-sea black coral survives in permanent ...
Yunnan University and BGI-Research have successfully constructed a reference set of 14,062 gut microbiota from animals living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, revealing rich microbial resources. The results were reported online on November 20, 2025, in the scientific journal Microbiome in a paper ti...
Researchers from the 10,000 Fish Genomes Project (Fish10K) consortium report a comprehensive genomic resource spanning 464 teleost fish species, including 110 newly assembled genomes that fill three previously unsampled orders. The study, accepted by The Innovation (IF=25.7), brings fish comparat...