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QC-CBS Event: Women in Science Event this Friday! 0 comments

by Patricia Comeau
Dear CBS Members and Friends, The Quebec City Student Chapter of the Canadian Biomaterials Society QC-CBS has organized the 3rd edition of their Women in Science Event for this Friday, March 27th from 9am to 1pm EST...
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WBC2016 Legacy Travel Award Deadline Extended to March 2 0 comments

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The deadline for the WBC2016 Legacy Travel Award has been extended to March 2, 2026, to match the abstract deadline extension for the CBS CSPS CC-CRS Conference...
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Abstract Deadline Extended for CBS/CSPS/CC-CRS Conference 0 comments

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Dear members and friends of the Canadian Biomaterials Society, The abstract deadline has been extended to March 2nd, 2026 for the upcoming CBS CCPS cc-CRS 2026 meeting this June in Vancouver, BC...
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Dear friends , For this years annual meeting in beautiful Vancouver, BC June 2 - 5 2026 we are happy to partner with the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences CSPS and the Canadian Chapter of the Controlled Release Society cc-CRS ...
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Local Delivery of Chondroitinase ABC Promotes Neuronal Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Grafts in a Spinal Cord Injury Model comments

by Molly Shoichet
Functional recovery following spinal cord injury SCI is limited due to a cascade of cellular and biomolecular events, termed secondary injury, that lead to cell loss and the expression of growth inhibitory molecules...
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Defining the effect of endogenous tension on pancreatic differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells comments

by Christopher Moraes Raymond Tran
Type 1 diabetes is caused by the autoimmune destruction of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas...
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Nano-spray therapy for treating heart attacks comments

by Emilio Alarcon Marcelo Munoz
We present a nano-spray therapy for on-the spot-repair of a heart attack. Our sprayable therapy uses nano-engineered peptide-based materials, where nanomolar concentrations of surface engineered spherical nanogold are used to coat the surface of the cardiac muscle...
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3D Printing of Sandwich Panel Skull Bone Replacements comments

by Rizhi Wang Liz Avren
Skull bone fractures and deformities are caused by a variety of conditions including Traumatic Brain Injury TBI or congenital conditions involving suture fusion...
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Plasma approaches for controlling the release of silver ions from silver-based antibacterial nanocoatings comments

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Recently, the prevention of hospital-acquired infections HAIs has increased to a great extent, due to an augmented awareness on the importance to reduce the spread of bacteria on everyday surfaces located, e...
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