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MIT researchers build handheld device that collects living cancer cells for testing

As of September 2026: Research collaborator

Standard cancer pathology has a built-in contradiction: tissue is bathed in chemical preservatives before analysis, and those chemicals kill the cells inside it. That leaves pathologists with a good look at dead cells and no way to test how a patient's living cancer responds to drugs.

Updated Sep 24

Princeton researcher proposes Recurrent Looped Transformer for deeper AI reasoning

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As of September 2026: Home institution of the RLT paper's author

Yifan Zhang, a Princeton researcher, posted a technical report September 12 describing the Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT). It pairs a causal encoder with a recurrent decoder that carries its hidden state and sliding-window attention cache across every token.

Updated Sep 13