Starting from March 14, 2022, Shenzhen was under a one-week lockdown, shutting down all bus and subway systems and the businesses not providing essential services were closed. Meanwhile, employees worked from home to implement a closed management system in communities, villages in cities and industrial parks. The lockdown has also been accompanied by three rounds of city-wide, mass testing, according to a government notice. During the Winter Olympics, MGIUS-R3 supported doctors at Peking Univer...

The COVID-19 pandemic has rebounded in many places recently. Nucleic acid testing is in response to the large-scale population COVID-19 pandemic testing demands.

With the continuous needs for improved detection capacity, the 384-well plate has become a more popular option for laboratories. Compared with the 96-well plate, the volume of 384-well plate is increased by four times and the size of the wells is 6 times smaller. This greatly enhances the overall capacity and operational efficiency in the laboratories, and also maximizes the effectivity of the reagent consumption. MGISP-960 is a high-throughput sample processing workstation, with a volume range...

The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic has posed a daunting challenge to the infectious disease monitoring system. Virus genome sequencing is a vital and rapidly developing tool in the diagnosis and the understanding of the epidemiology and virology of COVID-19. Adoption of viral genome sequencing plays a pivotal role in determining the geographical origin and whether these cases originated from the same source transmission chain. Advanced genetic sequencing technologies have undoubtedly provided ...

On February 20th, Shanxi Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) allocated two MGI container labs to the Second People's Hospital of Jinzhong, Taigu District. MGI's engineer team worked non-stop to complete the installation, debugging and commissioning in only 12 hours to support the local COVID-19 response. "Empowered by the This Biosafety Level 2 laboratory is further enhanced with state-of-the-art ventilation systems for air exchange, pressure control and sterilization. I...