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 the Australian Federal Government and Minderoo Foundation to secure an abundance of COVID-19 testing kits and other equipment, in a mission to eliminate COVID-19 in Australia. Global genomics leader BGI Group (BGI) has joined the initiative named "Security Through Accelerated Testing" (STAT)...

TORONTO, May 13, 2020 – Today, Sinai Health, a significant centre for COVID-19 testing in Canada, will receive a donation from The Mammoth Foundation of key laboratory equipment to increase its COVID-19 detection capability. The Mammoth Foundation has donated testing equipment produced by genomics leader BGI Group, in addition to installation, training and logistics support. At the heart of this donation, among other equipment, is the MGISP-960 automated viral RNA extraction and sample prepara...

2. High specificity: No cross-reactivity with 54 human respiratory pathogens 4. Easy interpretation: Analysis of one target with well-defined controls The authorization includes MGI's MGIEasy Nucleic Acid Extraction Kit as a validated method for viral RNA extraction, which is currently in abundant supply worldwide and addresses a severe sample preparation bottleneck for widespread testing. In addition, MGI's robotic sample preparation system significantly improves throughput and reproducibilit...

PARIS, April 17, 2020 -- MGI, a global life science technology company of BGI Group, has signed an agreement with the Health Ministry of France to provide equipment and materials to enable testing of 2 million people throughout the country for COVID-19. MGI is working with hospitals around France to deliver the urgently needed testing supplies and rapidly scale up capacity to 40,000 tests per day for the population. “I know that I can count on the full mobilization of BGI Group to supp...

MGI has announced a major upgrade for DNBSEQ-G50 with improvements to flexibility, turnaround time and performance. The original FC (Flow Cell) with 300M total reads is upgraded to FCL (Flow Cell Large) with 500M total reads, and a new FCS (Flow Cell Small) has been released with total reads of 100M. In addition, a longer read length of PE150 has been released, and the sequencing chemistry has been optimized to provide shorter turnaround time and better data performance. With this upgrade,...