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Dear CBS Friends and Members, Please find the Spring 2026 newsletter attached here. Regards, Patricia Comeau, CBS Secretary
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Dear CBS Members and Friends, We have been asked to share the following message on behalf of the organizing committee for our upcoming CBS CSPS cc-CRS meeting in Vancouver, BC...
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Dear Canadian Biomaterials Society Members Friends, A call for late-breaking abstracts has now been released for our upcoming CBS CSPS cc-CRS 2026 meeting this June in sunny Vancouver, BC...
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Development of an Injectable, In situ-forming, and Mechanically Resilient Hydrogel for Cell Delivery for Nucleus Pulposus Regeneration comments

by Brian Amsden Hossein Riahinezhad
Intervertebral disk degeneration IVDD is a common disease, especially in elderly people, that causes severe back pain and affects patients mobility and life quality considerably...
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MUSSEL-INSPIRED ALGINATE GEL PROMOTING THE OSTEOGENIC DIFFERENTIATION OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS AND ANTI-INFECTION comments

by Rene Mbeleck
Cell encapsulation demonstrates a very high potential for future tissue engineering applications, since Chang proposed the concept of artificial microencapsulation in 1964 1 ...
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Effect of the Tumor Microenvironment on the Diffusion of Gold Nanoparticles comments

by Dr. Karolina Valente
Microfluidic technology is based on the field of biological microelectromechanical systems bioMEMS and it has been employed in chemistry, pharmaceutical, biological and medical research...
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A 3D Bioprinted Hydrogel Mesh Loaded with All-Trans Retinoic Acid for Treatment of Glioblastoma comments

by Mohsen Akbari Bahram Mirani
Glioblastoma comprises more than 50 of all gliomas which is the most frequent type of brain tumor. 1 Current treatment strategies for this cancer includes surgical resection, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy...
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Fiber formation in genipin crosslinked elastin-based materials: a balance of coacervation, crosslinking comments

by Kirklann Lau
Elastin is the extracellular protein primarily responsible for elasticity in animal tissues. Elastin self-assembles from its protein building block unit, tropoelastin, via a liquid-liquid phase separation process known as coacervation...
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