As the normalized COVID-19 testing making the quality and cost control of the raw materials particularly important while ensuring the testing accuracy and stability, MGI launched its self-developed and mass-produced Magnetic Beads TQ01. This magnetic bead product is also the key raw material required for MGI’s widely used nucleic acid extraction reagent and MGIEasy Stool Human DNA Extraction Kit. Magnetic beads are the key materials for nucleic acid extraction. Compared with column extraction,...

SHENZHEN, China, 23 June 2022 – MGI, a company committed to being a world-leading life science innovator, has been awarded a Silver Globee® in the 14th Annual 2022 Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards® for its innovative COVID-19 pandemic control and response efforts worldwide. Since the rise of COVID-19, MGI has taken an active part in the prevention and control of the pandemic in over 70 countries and regions worldwide, including South Africa, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab ...

™ sequencers* combine the high accuracy and cost-effective PCR-free core patterned array technology (DNBSEQ ™ platform*. In addition to sequencing instruments*, MGI has developed a comprehensive portfolio of lab automation instruments (MGISTP series, MGISP series and MGINE series) and sample/library kits which enable complete workflow automation. "We are very excited to bring to this leading genomics market our well-tested complete genomics products centered on our unique DNBSEQ-based sequen...

Amidst the rapid evolution of DNA sequencing technologies in past years, the industry has been working tirelessly to make genomics more accessible. Since the Human Genome Project, which saw scientists from six countries coming together to map the first human genome at nearly $3 billion over 13 years, the cost of whole-genome sequencing has fallen to less than $1,000 today. Yet, the quest to produce larger amounts of short- and long-read data in a shorter span of time and at an even lower cost co...

On May 28, China CDC Weekly published the sequencing results of Omicron variant strain BA.5 (Omicron Subvariant BA.5), the first imported novel coronavirus variant (VOC) in Mainland China. The mutant strain was sequenced on MGI’s DNBSEQ-50RS*, and its genotyping showed that it was closely related to a sequence uploaded from South Africa (GISAID ID: EPI_ISL_12713186). At present, the BA.5 mutant strain has spread to 19 countries all over the world (a total of 2,614 sequences have been submitted ...