Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Dear CBS Friends and Members, Please find the Spring 2026 newsletter attached here. Regards, Patricia Comeau, CBS Secretary

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...

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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Two problems arise when replacing a patient artery by a synthetic vascular graft VG . The first one is the absence of endothelial lining on the lumen side of the graft, related to the inappropriate surface properties and textures, which leads to VG thrombosis...

Hydrogels consisting of controlled fractions of alginate, gelatin, and Matrigel enable the development of patient-derived bioprinted tissue models that support cancer spheroid growth and expansion...

Significant bone loss due to internal or external factors, remains a large orthopedic challenge. Current interventions use either autograft and allograft sources that carry a significant complication burden and show limited functional recovery, emphasizing the demand for an alternative therapeutic solution...

One of the main challenges in tissue engineering TE is to have bioreactors that reliably and reproducibly allow cells to expand while forming tissues that can sustain physiological functions in vivo...

The ultimate goal of neural tissue engineering is to produce functional tissue that mimics the physiological properties of the brain and spinal cord SC ...