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by Amanda Clifford
Please note that the CBS Board of Directors has approved an increase in membership fees, effective immediately...
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Call for Symposia: WBC 2024 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
The Scientific Program Committee of WBC2024 are soliciting proposals for symposia at the upcoming World Congress in Daegu, Republic of Korea May 26 May 31, 2023 ...
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CBS Fall 2022 Newsletter 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
The Fall 2022 edition of the CBS Newsletter has been released. You can access it here.
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CBS 2023 Annual Meeting at Dalhousie University 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
The 38th CBS annual meeting with be held at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Call for abstracts opens December 1st, 2022, and the Early Bird registration deadline is March 1st, 2023...
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Morphological differences between pseudotumors in patients with Metal on Metal and Metal on Polyethylene hip implants comments

by Felipe Eltit
Adverse tissue reactions are the most common causes of implant failure, they can affect up to 40 of patients with Metal on Metal MoM implants in the first five years of implantation, and a lower but non-negligible number of Metal on Polyethylene MoP and Ceramic on Polyethylene implants 1 ...
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Well-defined hyaluronic acid based hydrogels for studying primary lymphoma tumours comments

by Molly Shoichet Laura Bahlmann
Conventional drug screening is performed on cells cultured on 2D, stiff poly styrene , which provides an environment that misrepresents the morphology and growth characteristics of patient tumours...
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Tuning Polymeric Micelle Stability and Drug Loading with Chemical Modifications comments

by Molly Shoichet Jennifer Logie
Polymeric micelles have been heavily investigated for their use as vehicles to deliver poorly soluble, potent chemotherapeutics 1 ...
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Cytokine loaded layer-by-layer ultrathin matrices to deliver single dermal papilla cells for spot-by-spot Hair follicle regeneration comments

by ruijia yang
Hair loss is a common disorder in humans due to a lot of reasons, in spite of life-threatening, it has impact on social interaction and psychological conditions, which in turn increases the demand for therapeutic treatment...
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“On-demand” nanofibrous poly(oligo ethylene glycol methacrylate) (POEGMA) hydrogel scaffolds with layered co-encapsulated cells via reactive electrospinning comments

by Todd Hoare Fei XU
In the last two decades, hydrogels have been widely explored for tissue regeneration due to their tunable mechanics, cell compatibility, ease of functionalization, and similarity to soft tissues...
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