MGI is partnering with SIMED Peru to provide COVID-19 testing packages 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 priori...

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 ...

On July 3, MGI Tech Co., Ltd. (referred to as MGI) and Beijing DYNA FLOW Tech Co., Ltd. formally signed a Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement, and both parties officially confirmed that they are strategic cooperative partners. We will carry out all-round strategic cooperation in the building and application of laboratory, and jointly develop an integrated nucleic acid detection lab, further helping “Huo-Yan” lab to become a powerful support for the new infrastructure of public hea...

Figure 1. Cleavage levels at putative genomic off-target loci containing fewer than five mismatches (white cells) for cbptargets 1, 4, and 5 were analyzed by deep sequencing. Tip 1 Featured papers published with data from MGISEQ-200 (DNBSEQ-G50) DOI: 10.13217/j.scjpm.2019.0481 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay6687 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.011 Remark: DNBSEQ-G50 retains its original product name MGISEQ-200 in China and certain overseas markets.