University of Miami pathologist Richard Cote is using Yang's principle of a lensless microscope to pioneer a way to move a microscope across samplecells located on a fixed surface.
Dr Brennan, who was the clinical director of the service from October 1990 until he took paid leave in June 1997, failed to carry out a key test on dozens of women which involves taking a sample of cells from the suspected cancer with a fine needle, the GMC was told.
The experimental characterization of a sample or sub-set of cancer cells from a patient provides totally inadequate information to satisfy the condition of Comprehensiveness.
His approach involves taking a muscle biopsy from a patient's thigh and then growing the tissue sample in the lab for three weeks until there are 600 million to 800 million of the myoblast cells.