Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

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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 ...

Biomaterials science study aims to improve devices in such way that, at physiological level, the tissue-biomaterial interface could have a strong integration...

The tumour microenvironment TME describes the non-cancerous cellular and non-cellular components of solid tumours 1 ...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. In Canada, over 50 000 coronary artery bypass surgeries and percutaneous coronary interventions are performed each year...

The monocyte-derived macrophage is one of the first cell types found on newly implanted devices and is known to play a role in inflammation, immunoregulation and wound healing depending on its functional phenotype...