John De Vos

Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

Wow

Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions

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I love the idea of "micropublications" www.micropublication.org (preparing one now)

Doing a post doc

🔍 Nous recrutons ! 🚀
Le Service d'Ingénérie Cellulaire et Tissulaire du CHU de Montpellier recrute DEUX Praticiens Hospitaliers Contractuels.
#PHC #PraticienHospitalier
#Montpellier !

#Recrutement #TherapieCellulaire #TherapieTissulaire #MTI

GSCN Conference (15. - 17. Oct 2025 in Munich)! Extended Deadline: 21 July 2025. Submit your abstract for an oral presentation & get an early bird ticket by 21.7.! Save on registration and secure your spot in the scientific program. Register and submit your abstract here: ➙ gscn-conferences.org

NIH is already feeling the effects of LLMs.

A new policy was posted yesterday that limits the number of proposals that can be submitted by any one investigator.

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I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.

I am thrilled to share our latest paper, "AAV8 based gene replacement therapy for hereditary spastic paraplegia type 5," just published in Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development!
@dzne.science @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social @tueneurocampus.bsky.social

A post on @genomeweb.bsky.social which didn't make it here on Bluesky: French Single-Cell Startup One Biosciences Raises 15M EUR in Series A financing

Platform solutions for commercial challenges to expanding patient access and making gene editing sustainable go.nature.com/4kCD1Y3

The US healthcare economy takeover
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"It's more of a comment than a question"

💥 A single infusion into the portal vein of embryonic stem cell-derived pancreatic islet result in 12/12 patients free of severe hypoglycemic and 83% with insulin independence at one year.
However, one death due to the immunosuppressive treatment.

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"US science has been world-leading for decades, driving global innovation. It is currently being attacked and systematically destroyed by its own government through defunding, gutting of agencies and attacking universities."

New paper from @chrischirp.bsky.social
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🏋️Training Course! The Use of Cell Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases: CAR-T in #Paris Oct 16-17
#immunotherapy #autoimmune #Tcell #tcellrx @isctglobal.bsky.social
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Trying to trace back the steps that led you to agree reviewing the paper

A tremendous loss. Pete Coffey passed away.

The Trump administration pushed out a university president – its latest bid to close the American mind | Robert Reich Demanding that the University of Virginia’s president resign is taken from the Viktor Orbán playbook of authoritarianism

The Trump administration pushed out a university president – its latest bid to close the American mind

Cites JD Vance : "aggressively reforming [Universities] in a way to where they’re much more open to conservative ideas."

By Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social‬

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Hydroclimate whiplash: whereas for every 1°C increase in temperature, the water vapor saturation capacity of the atmosphere will increase by 7%, non-extreme precipitation will only increase by 3% per °C, while extreme precipitation can increase by up to 14% per °C!

What a dystopic sentence
“the massive defunding of biomedical research in the US”

The scale of the research budget cutting 😱 and the budget Europe put on the table to attract American researchers 😂.

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
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Weekly reads: 14-day rule vs. 28-day rule, virtual cells & Turing test, Prasad politics - The Niche Biologist discusses week's news in regenerative medicine including a proposal to change 14-day rule to a 28-day rule for human embryo growth.

Weekly regenerative reads: 14-day rule vs. 28-day rule for human embryos, virtual cells & Turing test, Prasad politics vs. science ipscell.com/2025/07/week... #stemcells #stemcell

Human embryo research: how to move towards a 28-day limit The decades-old limit on how long human embryos can be grown in culture is under debate. A new road map outlines how to extend the length of culture responsibly.

An international group of scientists working in human-embryo and stem-cell research propose to extend the length of time for which human embryos can be grown in culture from 14 days to 28 days (ie complete neural-tube closure).
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12% of male human embryonic stem cell lines have lost at least in part their Y chromosome, which could have impact on the differentiation capacity of the cells.
By the team of Nissim Benvenisty
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#Pluripotency
#CheckYourCells!

By focusing #CARTcell activation on small areas using ultrasound-sensitive promoters, exhaustion is avoided and cytotoxicity and efficacy are improved! How creative!
In @Cell this week

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Bossons Glacier
2022 | 2025

No comment needed... 😭

📷 Baptiste Locatelli

Peter Witt, Wave in Backlight, 2024
Oil on canvas

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.
#giftlink

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...

Yes, I've bitched about this before. It just that now we're seeing the chickens come home to roost.