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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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CBS nominations for positions within the Board of Directors and proposals for CBS2026 0 comments

by Isabelle Catelas
Dear CBS member, This email concerns nominations for positions on the Board of Directors and proposals to host the 2026 Annual Meeting...
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A survey towards the development of a Canadian database of nanomedicine-related research expertise 0 comments

by Mohsen Akbari
As part of its legacy strategy, the NanoMedicines Innovation Network NMIN is creating an online database of Canadian nanomedicines researchers and the areas of expertise represented within their labs...
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Workshop: Peptide Synthesis and Applications in Regenerative Medicine 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
Dear Trainees, Drs. Marcelo Munoz and Emilio Alarcon will facilitate a workshop on Peptide Synthesis and Applications in Regenerative Medicine at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute from August 14th to 17th, 2023...
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Localized Delivery of Exogenous C-type Natriuretic Peptide from Heparin-Coated NPs – Potential Use in Suppressing Fibrotic Phenotypes in Cardiac Myofibrogenesis comments

by Paul J Santerre Shirley Chung
In a healthy heart, cells naturally secrete C-type natriuretic peptide CNP , an anti-fibrotic cytokine that has strong effects on cardiac fibroblast function, fibrosis, and extracellular matrix deposition...
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Effect of calcium incubation versus mineralization in polyplex transfection efficiency of MC3T3 E-1 mouse osteoblasts comments

by Hasan Uludag
Mineralization is a widely used technique to coat materials with calcium phosphate or calcium carbonate layers for cell delivery applications...
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Development of a Novel Method for the Strengthening and Toughening of Irradiation-Sterilized Bone Allografts used in Orthopaedic Reconstructions comments

by Thomas Willett Tarik Attia
Over 900,000 bone-grafting procedures are performed each year in the USA 1 . Human bone allografts are used in the orthopaedic reconstruction of skeletal defects resulting from traumatic injuries, diseases and revision arthroplasty however, bone allografts have insufficient mechanical properties 2 and graft fracture is a documented clinical failure mode 3 ...
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pH Sensitive Chitosan Nanoparticles: A Novel Approach to the Prevention of Dental Caries comments

by Yi Zhu
Dental caries tooth decay remains one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide. In previous research 1 proteins have been identified from the acquired enamel pellicle AEP , the layer between the tooth enamel and a dental plaque, that have demonstrated biological functions directly related to enamel homeostasis and inhibition of dental caries...
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Using a Mathematical Model to Study the Neuronal Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Seeded on Melt Electrospun Biomaterial Scaffolds comments

by Stephanie Willerth Meghan Hall
Human induced pluripotent stem cells hiPSCs have two prominent properties pluripotency and the ability to self-renew...
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