Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

The Fall 2022 edition of the CBS Newsletter has been released. You can access it here.

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...

The Canadian Biomaterials Society is pleased to present The 2022-2023 CBS mentorship and Professional Development Program Join The 2nd Lab and the CBS-QC Student Chapter this Friday, October 7th, 2022 at 5 00 PM for a hybrid information session about this program...

Dear CBS Members, The World Biomaterials Congress 2024 WBC2024 is soliciting recommendations for plenary speakers...

Successful repair of severely injured peripheral nerves requires physical guidance such as tubularization 1 and a neurotrophic environment such as the presence of neurotrophic factors...

Dental polymeric composites are most commonly based on methacrylate monomer chemistry blended with silanized filler particles...

It is currently established that two-dimensional 2D cancer cell culture fails to recapitulate the essential features of in vivo tumor growth...

Myofibroblasts have been implicated in scar tissue formation around biomaterials. When biomaterials are implanted as part of a tissue engineered construct, as a sensor, as a prosthetic or even as a drug delivery device, scar formation fibrosis around the biomaterial often interferes with the intended function...

In tumor progression, the hypoxia-mediated epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition EMT works as an important survival pathway, where epithelial cells lose their polarized properties and acquire mesenchymal characteristics...