Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

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...

Calling all abstracts The CBS2025 Organizing Committee invites you to submit your abstracts related to biomaterials research through the Oxford Abstracts submission portal...

Elastic hydrogels carry the potential to serve as scaffolds for various biomedical applications. Though some elastic hydrogels are biocompatible, most of the synthetic polymer-based elastic scaffolds lack bioactive sequences to promote cell adhesion or migration, which is important for their application in tissue engineering...

Optic neuropathy is a common cause of vision loss resulting from death of retinal ganglion cells due to insufficient blood flow, inflammation, infection or trauma...

Percutaneous devices encompass any device that penetrate through the skin such as dental implants and transcutaneous orthopaedic implants...

Protein adsorption is an initial response to biomaterials and a precursor to thrombus formation and inflammation, which can result in significant challenges to device efficacy...

Phospholipids containing phosphatidyl choline PC as a headgroup in cell membranes are proved to exist in all eukaryotic cells and at least 10 of all bacteria...