They came at night in a so-called midget submarine, swimming the final distance with their cumbersome gear sidearms, sample tubes, augur screws, waterproof writing pads, flasks of brandy.
They came at night in a so-called midget submarine, swimming the final distance with their cumbersome gear — sidearms, sample tubes, augur screws, waterproof writing pads, flasks of brandy.
Yet the mode of analysis itself makes the simultaneous measurement of many samples cumbersome as each reaction tube or well would have to be equipped with an electrode.
That's because quantitative polymerase chain reaction takes about 3 hours and requires cumbersome equipment, plus samples must be transported to a laboratory.
Unfortunately, collecting, handling, storing, concentrating and analyzing breath samples is cumbersome, technically challenging, and may thus not be easy to apply widely.
Although data supports the hypothesis that volatile compounds can be detected in the breath of lung cancer patients by the sense of smell or through bioanalytical techniques, analysis of breath samples is cumbersome and technically challenging, thus limiting its applicability.
However, direct sequencing analysis of a large number of clinical samples is cumbersome and time consuming.
However, direct sequencing of viral isolates from a large number of clinical samples is cumbersome and time consuming.
While current methods for sequencing 50 200 genes in 10 000 s of samples are cumbersome, this is an area of active technology development where we expect important advances will soon be available.
The option to not disinfect a mobile pump-tubing system used for monitoring well sampling yields a less cumbersome and, hence, less expensive sampling protocol for remote and/or low resource regions.
