In 2002, even before Tres Cantos came on line, GSK used this miniaturization process to reduce its cost per well by 22%, for experiments that not too long ago were taking place in cumbersome test tubes.
Not too long ago these experiments were taking place in cumbersome test tubes and done largely by hand.
Demand for these cumbersome tests was limited.
Therefore, the CF test, simple and reliable in diagnostic work on many human virus diseases became the test for natural infection in this field trial instead of the cumbersome Western Blot technique.
This procedure, however, is quite cumbersome, and tests were performed for low-energy high-resolution (LEHR) collimator which presents additional challenges (need to account for high scatter and septal penetration) relative to the typically recommended medium-energy (ME) collimator [14, 16, 17].
The turnaround time for results from a medical genome or exome is typically 6 weeks to 6 months, making the medical genome possibly the most cumbersome diagnostic test in the world.
In drug allergy, skin tests and in vitro laboratory tests are cumbersome, because the test reagents are not standardized and may even be harmful for a patient with a severe drug reaction.
Among the recommendations: Surveillance for newly emerging flu strains should be boosted, so-called seed strains for pandemic vaccines should be developed faster, by preparing virus "backbones" in advance, and the cumbersome and often inaccurate potency tests for new vaccines need to be improved.
Delay in bacilli isolation in culture, cumbersome susceptibility testing methods, lack of methods for differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) from non tuberculous mycobacteria, are important issues which impinge on the WHO's millennium goal of disease reduction by 2015.
Moreover, the performance of intravenous glucose tolerance testing is cumbersome for participants and labor intensive for staff.
