As a result of the outbreak of COVID-19, this year's 53rd European Congress of Human Genetics (ESHG 2020) was held online. MGI CSO Dr. Rade Drmanac, Dr. Nik Matthews of Institute of Cancer Research, UK, Prof Miguel Esteban at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, and Prof. Lars Engstrand of Karolinska Institute & Science for Life Laboratory in Sweden shared the latest progress of high-throughput sequencing technologies and valuable experience of utilizin...

MGISEQ-200 Used to Confirm Suspected Cases of COVID-19 "The MGISEQ-200 DNBSEQ platform helped us to fight against COVID-19 in terms of ultra-high sensitivity detection of complex infections, virus mutation monitoring, tracing, pathogenesis, prediction, and assistance in clinical treatment." ——Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, Department of Disease Control, Thailand In Thailand the rapid and effective development of epidemic prevention and control work has helped to keep the cumu...

On the night of May 1, 2020, there was heavy rain and hail all the way from Harbin to Suifenhe, a journey of nearly 500 kilometers that takes six hours by car. Cheng Jun is an after-sales service engineer of MGI who received an installation assignment at Suifenhe People's Hospital. The device arrived in Harbin at about 6 p.m. on May 1. Not wanting to waste any time, Cheng Jun and the truck driver decided to drive to Suifenhe overnight in order to complete the installation task, critical ...

The world’s first remote robotic ultrasound system, MGIUS-R3, received Class III medical device qualification by the China National Medical Product Administration (NMPA) on May 13, 2020, allowing it to enter the Chinese market and provide state-of-art long-distance ultrasound diagnostic services. Class III medical device qualification by the China National Medical Product Administration (NMPA) MGIUS-R3 was also certified through the EC Full Quality Assurance System in March, which means...

MGI is proud to announce that its solutions are being used for large-scale testing and sequencing for epidemic surveillance of COVID-19 in India. ICMR (The Indian Council of Medical Research), the top body in India leading the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has ordered nucleic acid extraction kits for more than one million RNA extractions from MGI. ICMR has also approved the import license for procurement of the MGI viral RNA extraction kits to India. India’s Punjab state governmen...

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)...