Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Calling all ECR Faculty Members for Keynote Presentation Opportunities Dear CBS Members, A feature of CBS2025 will be presentations from current Early Career Researcher ECR faculty member highlighting their expertise and new research...

CBS2025 abstract submission deadline is extended until February 7th We know it is a busy time of year and so we are happy to announce that the CBS 2025 abstract submission deadline for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterial Society has been extended until February 7th, 2025 please note that this will be the last extension The CBS2025 Organizing Committee invites you to submit your abstracts related to biomaterials research through the Oxford Abstracts submission portal...

Happy Monday There are two upcoming events that may be of interest to CBS members and our local biomaterials community...

Abstract deadline extended We are happy to announce that the CBS 2025 abstract submission deadline for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterial Society has been extended until January 30th, 2025 The CBS2025 Organizing Committee invites you to submit your abstracts related to biomaterials research through the Oxford Abstracts submission portal...

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...

Bone is a calcified structural tissue, present in all vertebrate life. Fundamentally, bone is a composite primarily composed of a highly substituted, poorly crystalline hydroxyapatite mineral phase and a primarily collagenous organic phase...

Scaffold porosity plays an important role in bone tissue engineering as macropores promote cell migration and flow of nutrients and micropores promote protein adsorption and cell adhesion...

Lipid-modified low molecular weight polyethyleneimines LMW PEIs are promising non-viral gene delivery systems that have been successfully explored for the treatment of various diseases through the delivery of plasmid DNA pDNA or mRNA to expression therapeutic proteins thereby restoring the defective protein, for the knockdown of aberrant proteins using RNA interference RNAi with short interfering RNA siRNA or for the complete knockout of the gene using CRISPR technology 1, 2 ...

Bone is a dynamic and vascularized tissue that has the ability of naturally healing upon damage. Nevertheless, in the case of critical size defects this potential is impaired...