Recently, MGI interviewed Dr. Gong Mengchun, a member of the diagnostic science committee of the International Rare Disease Research Alliance (IRDiRC). He graduated from the Peking Union Medical College School of Clinical Medicine and has extensively participated in the registration of rare diseases, medical informatics research, health care national and international collaborative work on big data standardization. From the perspective of the clinical application of high-throughput sequen...

RIGA, Latvia, November 26, 2019 –BGI Research and MGI, subsidiaries of global genomics leader BGI Group, announced a collaboration with scientists around the world to sequence and analyze 10 million cells in an effort to build a comprehensive single-cell transcriptome map to be shared with the scientific community. The“10 Million Single-Cell Transcriptome Project (scT10M)” was launched today during the opening ceremony of MGI Latvia and the China-Europe Life Health Innovation Center ...

RIGA, Latvia, November 26, 2019 -- MGI officially opened a new R&D and manufacturing facility in Riga, Latvia today, aiming to build a bridge between China and Europe for health science innovation. The new MGI Latvia facility includes a product manufacturing center, high-throughput sequencing center, training center and logistics center. MGI will also establish a China-Europe Life Health Innovation Center at the site to strengthen innovative cooperation between China and Europe in the fie...

The Proteus Genome Project (PGP), a collaborative project between BGI Research, the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and Aarhus University in Denmark, will unveil the information encoded in the genome of Proteus, an iconic cave salamander. Proteus (Proteus anguinus) Proteus (Proteus anguinus), also known as the olm, is an extraordinary animal, whose genome sequence is of great interest to the scientific community because it holds promises for future discoveries regarding proteus’ extr...

Sharing the vision of making the benefits of genomics available to everyone, BGI Group EVP and MGI President Duncan Yu participated in the Global Sustainable Technology & Innovation Conference (G-STIC) Nov. 20-22 in Brussels and presented a keynote speech on recent innovations in genomics. BGI Group EVP and MGI President Duncan Yu delivering speech The focus of this year’s conference, attended by technology leaders and policy makers from around the world, was identifying clusters of integr...

Recently, the 2019 China Mobile Global Partner Conference Forum on Government and Enterprise was successfully held in Guangzhou. The theme of this forum is “Creating a 5G Ecology and Bringing a Wonderful Future”. BGI Group Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer Lu Jun and BGI Group Executive Director and MGI CEO Mu Feng were invited to attend the seminar to discuss smart healthcare with the industry. At this forum, BGI Group Executive Director and MGI CEO Mu Feng signed a strategic coope...