On September 9, on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the establishment of BGI Group, the 2026 BGI Group global new product launch conference with the theme of "Intelligent Life and Health Without Boundaries" was held at the BGI Time and Space Center. A series of new products and services covering areas such as brain science, scientific research computing, medical testing, active health, and even pets and agricultural ecology were released on site, demonstrating how life science and technology has moved from the laboratory to our daily lives.
At the press conference, Wang Jian, chairman and co-founder of BGI Group, said that facing the future, BGI will take health as its priority and be supported by more advanced and accessible life science tools and large genome models to promote the deep integration of life sciences and clinical medicine. He proposed that BGI will continue to use cutting-edge technology to prevent and control birth defects with relatively clear causes and mechanisms, and contribute to global life and health.
Subsequently, Yin Ye, CEO of BGI Group, delivered a keynote speech titled "The Era of Great Health and Longevity". He said, "After AI, the biggest focus for human beings and even carbon-based life is the longevity project. The so-called longevity is not simply to live longer, but to live better, healthier, and with more dignity. We must move from treating existing diseases to preventing diseases, and from passive medical treatment to active health." He also emphasized that "physical examination is the starting point, not the end point, of health improvement." Only by continuously accumulating and tracking health data can we understand changes in the body earlier and implement health into actions that can be taken every day.
This has also become the common direction of many new products at this conference: let life signals be seen, and let complex data become the basis for exploring life and improving health.
Brain science is one of the cutting-edge directions that this conference focuses on. The multi-modal on-chip brain-computer interaction system unveiled this time is not only the first product launched by BGI in the field of the origin of consciousness, but also the world's first multi-modal product in this field, filling a gap in the industry. For the first time, this product integrates on-chip in-situ culture of neuronal cells, neural tissue, and brain organoids, electrophysiological function interaction, and optical function interaction on the same platform. It realizes the entire "culture-recording-control" process on a single chip, which can help researchers carry out long-term, continuous, precise, and multi-modal observation and control of the same sample. It provides a new technology platform for research in the fields of brain organoid development, neurological disease modeling, neurodrug screening, and cutting-edge biointelligence.
From the microscopic activities of brain organoids to the dynamic changes in each person's physical state, BGI's exploration of life signals also extends to personal health improvement.
Innate inheritance and acquired changes jointly determine the true state of the body. Relying on the 133111i active health technology platform, the "i99 Smart Health" applet launched by BGI can upgrade health assessment from a single detection to continuous dynamic management. Understanding the innate life script is the starting point for understanding your own health.
The world's first "Family Heritage Plan" combines long and short-read genome sequencing to establish long-term life records for families, covering multiple dimensions such as genetic diseases, tumor risks, complex disease risks, pharmacogenomics, ancestry, and physical constitution. The Wanyin Genome Series has four different versions: flagship version, smart version, starting version, and fun version to meet the differentiated needs from interesting cognition, comprehensive screening to panoramic health improvement.
In addition to innate genes, the human body is also changing all the time. As the core part of i99 Smart Health, the Life Index health index system integrates multi-source physical examination data to quantitatively evaluate an individual's comprehensive health level. Among them, Huazhiling flagship version can analyze about 28 million methylation sites through a tube of blood, assess the age and multi-dimensional health status of eight major organs, and measure aging trends; Translation-free Star Chart Lite is based on the Chinese Immune Atlas (CIMA) to assess individual immune age. From then on, a person's age is no longer determined solely by his or her ID card. We can turn "not in good condition recently" into a trackable indicator to help observe whether the aging rate is slowed down and related indicators can be improved after lifestyle adjustments.
In addition, BGI also released the world's first "clear at a glance" multi-modal eye imaging all-in-one machine that integrates external eye imaging, fundus photography, OCT/OCTA, biometry and eye movement detection, which can realize multi-system health risks of the eyes and the whole body in 5-7 minutes. The one-stop auxiliary assessment provides innovative solutions for health improvement; the "Hengji" smart ring can be worn daily to continuously record dynamic signals such as cardiovascular, sleep, and exercise recovery, providing 24-hour non-sensory monitoring to help build private digital health assets.
Understanding the body is only the first step. The more realistic question is: how to intervene? When it comes to nutritional supplements, “the more ingredients, the more comprehensive it is” seems to be the consensus of many people. But in fact, what and how much each person lacks is different, and it is difficult for a set of preset fixed formulas to meet everyone's needs. BGI Nutrition's latest release of "Yiren Yi Fang" personalized nutrients attempts to move nutritional supplements from "large and comprehensive" to "on-demand supplements". It uses whole-genome testing and metabolome testing as its entrance, and relies on a self-developed dual-baseline model to compare personal data with the longevity baseline of 129 Chinese centenarians and the natural population baseline of 10,000+ healthy people, and generate a personalized formula by an algorithm.
Skin care also refuses to be the same. In response to the skin care problem of "A is like honey, B is like arsenic", Hua Xiaolu has launched a skin health program that specializes in skin care. Through the "three tests in one" of genes, metabolism and optics, it combines 56 key genetic sites and 243 skin types to understand the innate tendencies and acquired changes behind skin problems such as "dark, wrinkled, dry, sensitive, yellow".
Personalized life technology is also stepping out of human-specific health scenarios. The GenoPaw precision health solution for dogs and cats released by BGI introduces genetic analysis and pathogen screening into daily pet-raising scenarios. In the agricultural scenario, BGI has launched the "Smart Soil" system - a series of products and services based on intelligent soil microecological detection, evaluation and transformation driven by big data.
For life science research, the DCS Cloud biological intelligence analysis platform organizes multi-omics data, cloud computing power and AI tools. Researchers only need to put forward requirements in natural language, and the platform intelligent agent Genpilot can understand the problem, plan the analysis path, schedule computing power, complete data analysis, and output traceable and reproducible results.
A number of cooperation signing and launching ceremonies were also held at the press conference. BGI has signed Life Index partner cooperation agreements with Anhui Provincial Hospital, Guangzhou Baiyun District People's Hospital and other institutions, signed BGI Zhihui Health Center city partner cooperation agreements with Hubei Big Data Group and other institutions, and signed SEQ ALL strategic partnerships with 11 institutions. In addition, BGI also signed strategic cooperation agreements with the Trustworthy and General Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of West Lake University and the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
At the press conference, BGI also officially launched the Precision Health Private Board. It brings together BGI internal and external think tank resources, uses multi-omics technology as the base, and combines immersive health industry learning and practice in four places to help establish a systematic health awareness and better grasp the initiative of personal health.
From brain organoids to body age, from scientific research cloud platforms to three meals a day, from individuals and pets to the land beneath our feet, life science and technology is expanding new boundaries in understanding life and managing health. Let the subtlest signals of life be seen earlier, and let complex data no longer stay in reports, but become actions that can be taken in research, decision-making and daily life. This is the specific footnote of "intelligent sensing of life and health without boundaries", and it is also a new step taken by BGI on the road of "gene technology benefiting mankind".
