Last month, Wang Jian, co-founder and chairman of BGI Group, went to the frontlines to support prevention and control of the 2019-nCoV outbreak in Wuhan. "Precise nucleic acid testing is an important basis for clinical diagnosis and discharge of recovered patients, as well as ending isolation of contacts,” he said, pointing to the urgent need for a testing center that can process a large volume of samples daily. On February 5, the Huo-Yan Laboratory, an emergency test laboratory run by B...

On February 5, the Huo-Yan Laboratory, an emergency test laboratory run by BGI and designed to handle 10,000 samples daily to detect 2019-nCoV, officially started trial operation in Wuhan. The lab will greatly increase the speed of testing novel coronavirus cases so that suspected infections can be eliminated or confirmed as soon as possible. The Huo-Yan or “Fire Eye” laboratory was jointly established by the Wuhan Municipal Government, Wuhan East Lake High-Tech Development Zone,CCCC S...

On February 2 Professor Peng Chengzhong, deputy director of the Remote Ultrasound Medical Center at Zhejiang Province People's Hospital in Hangzhou, used MGI's ultrasonic robot to evaluate a suspected patient with the novel coronavirus 60 kilometers away in Tongxiang. "The pleural line is smooth, the pleural sliding signs are visible, the B line of the lungs is increased,” Dr. Peng said, reading the screen to assess the condition of the patient remotely. Since the outbreak of new coron...

With the continuous change of the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic, medical personnel have higher requirements for the speed, throughput and safety of virus detection and identification. However, in the process of sample processing, automated operations have not yet been fully popularized, and many medical staff still use manual operations. This not only makes the nucleic acid extraction process time-consuming, the operation is relatively tedious, and more importantly, medical staff i...

Since the joint anti-epidemic initiative was launched on February 1st, as of 17:00 on February 2nd, 131 companies have jointly launched initiatives (of which 78 newly joined the initiative on February 2nd), and are willing to suspend the ongoing part Scientific research work and business operations, providing dozens of PCR laboratories, gene amplification test laboratories, P2 laboratories, CAP certification laboratories for anti-epidemic and anti-virus, automated nucleic acid analyzers, ...

The Fight to the new coronavirus has entered a critical stage. Despite that we have the strength of the whole country, the global deployment of resources has made it difficult to deal with the epidemic. In the current situation where incremental resources still take time, it is important to integrate the existing resources so that they can be quickly and effectively invested in the front line of defense. We call on industry-wide backbones and entrepreneurial elites in the field of life ...