UC Berkeley researchers provide blueprint for campus COVID-19 surveillance testing

The Innovative Genomics Institute entered summer 2020 with two goals in mind: to launch surveillance testing at UC Berkeley and boost participation rates.
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The Innovative Genomics Institute entered summer 2020 with two goals in mind: to launch surveillance testing at UC Berkeley and boost participation rates.
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UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute, or IGI’s, Free Asymptomatic Saliva Test, or FAST, study for COVID-19 will end Thursday after having tested more than 4,800 people, according Jennifer Doudna, president and chair of the IGI governance board
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While many students get tested regularly at UC Berkeley’s University Health Services, or UHS, coronavirus testing facilities, some students with disabilities find it challenging to access these services.
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The Innovative Genomics Institute launched a study at UC Berkeley to use saliva-based COVID-19 testing for detecting infection in individuals without symptoms who are working on campus.
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Here’s a question: What’s a problem a theoretical neuroscientist, a biochemist and a zoologist can’t solve? The answer is how to combat barriers in their very own labs. If you haven’t heard by now, UC Berkeley is the best public university in the world — and not only
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More than 150 individuals filled Sutardja Dai Hall on Tuesday to hear from John Deutch, former director of Central Intelligence and MIT professor emeritus, who spoke about challenges facing the U.S. intelligence community.
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