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Save the Date for CBS2025! 0 comments

by Lindsay Fitzpatrick
Join us in Kingston, Ontario for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society Dates May 21-23, 2025 Location Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario Stay tuned for more information...
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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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Mechanistic investigation of activity loss of enzymes upon PEGylation comments

by Andrea Greschner
Conjugation of methoxy poly ethylene glycol mPEG onto the surface of therapeutic proteins has long been used to reduce their immunogenicity and increase their circulatory half-life...
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Development of an Injectable and Thermosensitive Chitosan Hydrogel for the Prevention of Post-surgical Abdominal Adhesions comments

by Eve Hui
Post-operative peritoneal adhesions are a burden on public health. Their incidence reaches 67 to 93 and 97 after abdominal and gynecologic surgeries respectively 1-2 ...
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Injectable Interpenetrating Polymer Network Hydrogels from Pairwise Orthogonal Reactive Mixing of Functionalized Prepolymers comments

by Todd Hoare Trevor Gilbert
Interpenetrating polymer networks IPNs are a class of cross-linked materials in which two distinct networks overlap within the same bulk volume...
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Mechanical stimulation as a tool to boost nanoparticles uptake by cells comments

by Gabriele Candiani Federica Ponti
In the past decades, the rise of nanotechnology and gene therapy have brought new hope for the development of novel preventatives and therapeutics, as recently demonstrated by the success of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines1,2...
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Ions, metabolites, and cells: Water as a reporter of surface conditions during bacterial growth comments

by Tasha Jarisz
How proteins and cells interact with surfaces plays a key role in a host of applications ranging from implant biocompatibility and biosensors, to drug delivery platforms and chromatography...
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