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Là où l’araignée pond ses œufs
A video by: Thomas Fortin
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A medical thriller in which cutting-edge neuroscience meets the experiments carried out between 1948 and 1964 for the CIA, under the MKUltra programme.
A surgeon, an implant, a deadly secret.
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Là où l’araignée pond ses œufs is one of the five crime novels picked by Michel Bélair for Le Devoir’s autumn literary season. The column outlines the plot — MK-ULTRA at McGill, artificial intelligence, a foreign object in an unidentified man’s brain — and calls it intriguing to see Dr David Fortin turn to crime fiction.
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Radio-Canada — a report by Réjean Blais on GlioTrap, the therapeutic gel developed by Dr David Fortin’s team and placed in the cavity left after a brain tumour is removed.
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(Publication: 1 april 2026)
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