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Rapid cost-effective viral genome sequencing by V-seq
By Longhua Guo, James Boocock, ... Joshua S. Bloom, Leonid Kruglyak, Yi Yin | Preprint
Lean Principles to Improve Quality in High-Throughput COVID-19 Testing Using SwabSeq: A Barcoded Sequencing-Based Testing Platform
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
Massively scaled-up testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA via next-generation sequencing of pooled and barcoded nasal and saliva samples
By Joshua S. Bloom, Laila Sathe, ... Leonid Kruglyak and Valerie A. Arboleda | Nature Biomedical Engineering
Sequencing Complete: A Visit to UCLA’s SwabSeq Lab
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.
UCLA's new $10 COVID test can process thousands of results in a day
By James Leggett | Fox News
A new COVID-19 testing method could help get results out faster.
The FDA authorized on Wednesday emergency use of the SwabSeq COVID-19 diagnostic platform developed by doctors at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The test can turn around results within 12-24 hours, according to the team that developed it.
UCLA obtiene permiso para realizar un nuevo método de detección rápida del coronavirus
By Univision
El procedimiento de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles analizará muestras de nariz, de garganta y de saliva. Puede procesar miles de pruebas simultáneamente y entregar los resultados en pocas horas, mucho más rápido que cualquier otro examen.
Scientists pioneer faster, cheaper COVID-19 testing technology
By UCLA Health | Newswise
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for scientists at UCLA Health to begin using a new method of COVID-19 detection using sequencing technology called SwabSeq. The method is capable of testing thousands of samples for coronavirus at the same time, producing accurate, individual results in 12 to 24 hours.
UCLA Health scientists pioneer faster and cheaper COVID-19 testing technology
By UCLA, Health Sciences | UCLA Health
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for scientists at UCLA Health to begin using a new method of COVID-19 detection using sequencing technology called SwabSeq. The method is capable of testing thousands of samples for coronavirus at the same time, producing accurate, individual results in 12 to 24 hours.
UCLA's $10 Test Is Helping SoCal Schools Monitor Viruses as They Reopen
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.
COVID-19 test offers solution for population-wide testing
- 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. They were able to perform more than 80,000 tests in less than two months, with the test showing extremely high sensitivity and specificity.