Howard Stone

Professor at Princeton University and study co-author

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Born: January 19, 1960

Education: California Institute of Technology, University of California, Davis

Last updated Nov 2, 2026

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

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As of September 2026: Collaborator on the research

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