The following statement was submitted for discussion to the Stellenbosch University Senate. We are awaiting a special meeting of the Senate to further debate the matter.
MGI, a company committed to building core tools and technology to lead life science, is delighted to support The African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP), launched in 2021, in sequencing of the project's first plant species based on MGI's DNBSEQ-G400 versatile benchtop sequencer and single-tube long fragment read (stLFR) technology.
A facility in South Africa is building capacity to allow for next-generation sequencing, a technology touted by the World Health Organisation as being critical to the future of healthcare.
Water in the country’s drains can pick up a spike in cases or can help to pick up a threatening new variant in time for clinics to prepare for an influx of patients.