China’s first “hospital version” of the Huo-Yan lab with MGI equipment has been established in the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, a national clinical medical research center for infectious diseases. The hospital plans to build an automatic molecular detection platform for infectious diseases, promote rapid diagnosis and large-scale detection of pathogenic microorganisms, and enhance clinical inspection capability. This solution also helps the hospital complete full technical pre...

In July 2020, MGI’s ultra-high-throughput sequencer DNBSEQ-T7, which received Class III medical device qualification and CE-IVD certification, was delivered to the Chigene. Gu Weiyue, Chairman of Chigene Mu Feng, CEO of MGI Through continuous innovation and relying on its own core technology, MGI is determined to promote the leap-forward development of China's gene sequencing industry to provide better tools and platforms for global users. “As the pioneer and provider of domestic seque...

MGI is partnering with SIMED Peru to provide COVID-19 testing solutions for UNILABS and INS (Peru’s National Institute of Health) to meet demand for timely testing and reliable results at scale. Since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in March, the disease has spread in the country rapidly. On March 22, Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra set a daily testing capacity goal of 5,000. A molecular preventive laboratory was proposed, but the country’s Ministry of Health has now prior...

The world’s first high-throughput automated sample transfer processing system, MGISTP-7000, received Class I medical device qualification by the China National Medical Product Administration (NMPA) on August 7, 2020, allowing it to enter the Chinese market. It also received the EU CE marking on August 14, 2020, which means the product has been approved to enter the EU market. MGISTP-7000 is our high-throughput automated sample transfer processing system, which integrates tube uncapping,...

In this global epidemic, a group of unknown people who brave the winds and waves to support the global pandemic response. They are the support team of MGI who worked day and night to help with the installation, debug and training of equipments, so as to ensure that all of the equipments can be put into use in time, and provide powerful support and guarantee for overseas epidemic prevention and control. Today, let us together hear about the story of our oversea colleague, Riddhi Patel, who...

On July 16, 2020, the Angolan government held an online signing ceremony with China’s Shenzhen-based BGI Group. Under the commission of the Angolan government, BGI will help to build five “Huo-Yan” laboratories nationwide for Coronavirus testing, with a total capacity of 6000 samples per day. Angola will be the African country with the largest number of “Huo-Yan” laboratories. The signing ceremony of Angola Ministry of Health Angola’s foreign minister, Téte António said that in ...