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![UCLA Symposium on Clinical Metagenomic Technology](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2024-05/MetagenomicsSymposium_1.jpg?itok=5EjVlb_O)
Due to tremendous advances in genomic sequencing, clinical metagenomics is poised to revolutionize diagnostics for infectious diseases. The purpose of this symposium was to bring together researchers developing and deploying clinical metagenomic NGS technology to share best practices and the latest technological advances.
![Daily Bruin - detect pathogens](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/DailyBruin_SwabSeq.jpg?itok=qH3kxIqz)
By Aparna Pillai | Daily Bruin
UCLA researchers are working on a single test that can detect pathogens beyond COVID-19.
![Barda](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-02/Barda-733x550.jpg?itok=YrYA53v2)
By UCLA | Computational Medicine Department
UCLA SwabSeq funded by BARDA to develop “agnostic” virus test.
![Covid Tests in Vending Machine](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/Newsweek_SwabSeq.jpg?itok=CzOQLk5h)
By Alexandra Schonfeld | Newsweek
![Chancellor Gene Block and other campus leaders took a tour at the lab’s facilities](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/Newsroom_SwabSeq.jpg?itok=B6xZn_vU)
By Delan Bruce | Newsroom
For UCLA, with a community of more than 80,000 students, faculty and staff, offering accurate and quick COVID-19 testing has been a critical part of campus operations during the pandemic.
![SwabSeq Lab](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-02/Swab%20733x550_0.png?itok=6kReFxNz)
By Dan Gordon ’85 | Newsroom
The UCLA–developed diagnostic technology has helped keep the university and other large client organizations operational during the pandemic.
![SwabSeq value stream map](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/Figure1_pub.jpg?itok=JgGVd1IJ)
By Janae Jones, BS, MS,a Rosita Saul, BS,a Laila Sathe, BS, Joanna Xie, MD, Dawn Marquette, BS, MLS(ASCP)CM, Valerie A. Arboleda, MD, PhD | Laboratory Medicine
![COVID-19 test offers solution for population-wide testing](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/ScienceDaily_SwabSeq.jpg?itok=Bt7c9yyV)
- By UCLA Health Sciences | Science Daily
- Researchers report real-world results on SwabSeq, a high-throughput testing platform that uses sequencing to test thousands of samples at a time to detect COVID-19.
![Massively scaled-up testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/NatureBiomedicalEng_SwabSeq.jpg?itok=lxrQf8z4)
By Joshua S. Bloom, Laila Sathe, ... Leonid Kruglyak and Valerie A. Arboleda | Nature Biomedical Engineering
![Helping Socal Schools Reopen](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/dotLA_SwabSeq.jpg?itok=JQ3rsJL2)
By Keerthi Vedantam | .DotLA
Several Southern California schools and universities will be testing every student and employee returning to the classroom for COVID-19 and other viruses in an attempt to thwart an outbreak.
![UCLA obtiene permiso para realizar un nuevo método de detección rápida del coronavirus](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/Univision2_SwabSeq.jpg?itok=_dnuRKvq)
![FDA approval](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/fox2_swabseq.jpg?itok=GojoyTIX)
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By UCLA Health | Newswise
![UCLA Health scientists pioneer faster and cheaper COVID-19 testing technology](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/UCLAHealth_SwabSeq.jpg?itok=T8uNkF3I)
By UCLA, Health Sciences | UCLA Health
![V-Seq Design](/sites/default/files/styles/news_view_thumbnail/public/2023-03/Preprint_SwabSeq.jpg?itok=xRBI6-XU)
By Longhua Guo, James Boocock, ... Joshua S. Bloom, Leonid Kruglyak, Yi Yin | Preprint