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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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Hybrid crosslinking of gelatin methacrylate hydrogel with highly tunable stiffness and degradation comments

by Evelyn Yim Muhammad Rizwan
Naturally-bioactive hydrogels, such as gelatin methacrylate GelMA , provide favorable properties for tissue-engineering applications, but lack strength and require complex fabrication or multi-component additives, to improve material strength, which can compromise other properties...
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FRESH Bioprinting Drastically Enhances the Printability of Chitosan Thermosensitive Hydrogels comments

by Sophie Lerouge Maedeh Rahimnejad
Thermosensitive chitosan CH -based hydrogels that rapidly pass from a liquid at room temperature to a mechanically stable solid at body temperature without any crosslinker show excellent potential for tissue engineering applications and could be interesting candidates for bioprinting ADDIN EN...
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Investigating the Role of the Host Inflammatory Response in Modulating the Efficacy of Cell-Based Therapies for Vascular Regeneration comments

by Fiona Serack
Atherosclerotic vascular disease, including peripheral arterial disease PAD , is the leading cause of mortality in North America and Europe, with PAD accounting for 1 5 of all vascular disease...
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Integrating Morphogen releasing Microspheres into Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Aggregates with Hydrogel Scaffolds to Induce Neuronal Differentiation comments

by Stephanie Willerth Tara Styan
The Willerth Lab differentiates human induced pluripotent stem cells hiPSCs into functional neurons for drug screening and therapeutics see https www...
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Effect of carbamylation on protein charges and folding structures comments

by Larry D. Unsworth Yuhao Ma
Patients with chronic kidney disease usually have a higher level of protein carbamylation than healthy people, which is strongly associated with cardiac damage, congestive heart failure, and sudden cardiac death...
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