NCCN brought together more than a thousand oncology professionals at the NCCN 2026 Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, with hundreds more joining virtually. This year’s event featured educational sessions on the latest breakthroughs in cancer prevention and treatment, clinical guidelines updates, guidance for improving cancer center operations, plus panel discussions on critical issues in care delivery.

Prompt engineering has emerged as a critical tool to refine AI outputs, but existing techniques are fragmented and lack a cohesive structure. The research team, led by Professor Feng Zhang from Renmin University of China and collaborators from Microsoft AI, Tsinghua University, and the National University of Singapore, published their new research on 15 March 2026 in Frontiers of Computer Science co-published by Higher Education Press and Springer Nature.

More than seventy years after Alan Turing posed the question of whether machines could think, advances in artificial intelligence have shifted the focus from imitation to collaboration. As AI increasingly undertakes complex academic tasks through multi-agent collaboration, a new question emerges: beyond the Turing Test, how should the human role in research be redefined?

The China–Italy Laboratory Medicine Collaboration Meeting at Ruijin Hospital focused on strengthening international cooperation in academic publishing, research, and education. Key discussions included transforming LabMed Discovery into a more proactive platform through expert forums and expanding collaboration in AI applications in laboratory medicine.