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Board of Directors for 2024 - 2025 0 comments

by Isabelle Catelas
Dear CBS members, It is my pleasure to announce the new Board of Directors of the CBS for 2024 - 2025...
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AGM 2024 Details 0 comments

by Todd Hoare
Dear friends - here are the final details for the upcoming hybrid CBS Annual General Meeting In-person May 29, 2024, 8 30 AM KST in room 504 of EXCO Center Online May 28, 2024, 7 30 PM EDT at Zoom link https mcgill...
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2023 AGM minutes for review 0 comments

by Todd Hoare
The 2023 CBS Annual General Meeting minutes to be approved at the 2024 AGM are posted on the members-only meeting page https biomaterials...
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Annual General Meeting 2024 Link 0 comments

by Davide Brambilla
Dear members, The 2024 CBS AGM will take place on May 28th at 7 30 PM EST. Please find here the link https mcgill...
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Investigating the Role and Mechanisms of Extracellular Vesicle Signalling in Human Cardiac Tissue-on-a-Chip Models comments

by Milica Radisic Karl Wagner
Unlike seasonal coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 has a profound tropism for the heart. Estimates indicate 78 of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience cardiac side effects, with asymptomatic individuals still at risk of viral-induced heart failure, yet the mechanisms and consequences of such effects remain unclear...
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High-throughput synthesis, analysis, and optimization of injectable hydrogels for drug delivery comments

by Todd Hoare Fei XU
Hydrogels are three-dimensional crosslinked polymer networks that have been widely explored in drug delivery given that their tunable internal porosities allow drugs to be loaded and subsequently released with user-defined kinetics...
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The effects of PMMA surface chemistry and neutrophil extracellular traps on THP1 cells and lens epithelial cells comments

by Elissa LeBlanc
Following cataract surgery, 20- 40 of patients experience reduced or afflicted vision via the development of posterior capsule opacification PCO , or secondary cataracts 1 ...
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MATURATION OF HUMAN STEM CELL-DERIVED CARDIOMYOCYTES IN 3D TISSUES THROUGH COLLAGEN DENSITY MODULATION comments

by Milica Radisic Aric Pahnke
Cardiac tissue engineering has emerged as an intriguing course to mitigate the detrimental effects of cardiovascular disease...
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Modelling cystic fibrosis chronic infection over an engineered mucus-like hydrogel comments

by Brendan Leung Courtney O'Brien
The protective mucus layer that lines the airways is responsible for trapping pathogens and clearing them through mucociliary clearance...
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