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John De Vos
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#StemCells Researcher | Director of the Cell Processing Facility
University of Montpellier - CHU of Montpellier | #StemCells #iPScells for #lung #CellTherapy |
Stem Genomics co-founder | President of the FSSCR

Biology 37%
Environmental science 10%

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[AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | AI (artificial intelligence) |The Guardian]

“AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots“

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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com

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Another major triumph for a refractory autoimmune disease—hemolytic anemia—through engineered T cells
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CD19 CAR T-Cell Therapy for Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia | NEJM
In patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), the risk of relapse is high owing to persistent autoreactive B-cell activity. Multirefractory AIHA is a more advanced stage of disease that is d...
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Ludovic Vallier, Stem Cell Reports Associate Editor, is attending Biotherapy Days 2026 in Toulouse, France 28-30 January 2026. Connect with him to discuss whether your research is a fit for publishing in Stem Cell Reports!
2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹

"In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global
ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming."

+ #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn

Other data regarding #CARTCell treatments in France. Interesting!

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Number of #CARTCell treatments in France : rapidly increasing.

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Solid tumor, allogeneic #CART alert 📣 : encouraging results from a phase I study using allogeneic IL-13Rα2 CAR-T cells in five people with recurrent high-grade glioma.

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News: Off-the-shelf CRISPR CAR-T tackles brain tumours - CRISPR Medicine
A first-in-human, phase I trial tested intrathecal delivery of CRISPR-Cas9-edited, allogeneic IL-13Rα2 CAR-T cells in five people with recurrent high-grade glioma. The single-centre study reports…
crisprmedicinenews.com

Allogeneic #CARTCells in phase Ib/II clinical trials in China for the treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (R/R MM) and primary plasma cell leukemia (pPCL). Phase I study showed interesting results.

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CARsgen Submits Dual IND Applications for Allogeneic BCMA CAR-T Product CT0596
SHANGHAI,Dec. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CARsgen Therapeutics Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 2171.HK), a company focused on developing innovative CAR T-cell therapies, announced that it has submitted
news.futunn.com

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"There’s a good likelihood that by 2050, all scientific research will be done
by superintelligent AI rather than human researchers,” Bostrom said in an e-mail. “Some humans might do science as a hobby, but they wouldn’t be making any useful contributions.”

The science of 2025

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Science in 2050: the future breakthroughs that will shape our world — and beyond
Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the mid-century mark.
www.nature.com

Monkey pluripotent stem cells-derived blastoids mature in vitro in 3D into Carnegie stage 8-9 (late gastrulation) embryos. Spectacular progress to study primate embryonic development.
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Modelling late gastrulation in stem cell-derived monkey embryo models - Nature
An optimized 3D culture system enabled a stem cell-derived monkey blastoid to develop to day 25, recapitulating key events of primate late gastrula and demonstrating notable similarity to natural…
www.nature.com

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