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Webinar by CBS-ASC: Diversify Your Career Options Outside of Academia 0 comments

by Neda Latifi
CBS-ASC would like to invite you to the first webinar of 2022 that will be held on Thursday, March 3rd, 2022, at 4 pm MST via ZOOM on the topic titled Diversify your career options outside of academia ...
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The 37th CBS Annual Meeting in Banff 0 comments

by Neda Latifi
The Canadian Biomaterials Society CBS will be hosting the 37th Annual Meeting in Banff, Alberta in a hybrid format from Wed...
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We would like to obtain feedback from our members regarding possible new logo designs. Please vote for your preferred option through the CBS Logo Poll at this location https biomaterials...
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The 2022 Biomaterials Challenge 0 comments

by Neda Latifi
The Ottawa Student Chapter is pleased to present The 2022 Biomaterials Challenge We challenge graduate and undergraduate students in Ontario to compete on explaining How to select a biomaterial? and What is biocompatibility? to 7th-grade students in a 3-minute recorded video or an infographic Deadline to submit March 10th, 2022
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Evaluation of the biocompatibility of Magnesium Alloys by Direct and Indirect Methods comments

by Afrah Alhegy
Magnesium alloys have the highest strength weight ratio of all known structural metals. They are a third lighter than aluminum and a quarter the density of steel...
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Fibronectin Modified Surfaces for Leukemia Cell Adhesion in Evaluating the Influence of Adhesion on Drug Sensitivity comments

by Juliana Valencia Serna
Current therapies with tyrosine kinase inhibitors such as Imatinib against Chronic Myeloid Leukemia CML inhibit production of 99 of fast-dividing cells, which are mostly the ones that remain in suspension through out the circulation system...
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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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Tribocorrosion and metal release in retrieved Metal-on-Polyethylene total hip implants comments

by Rizhi Wang Qiong Wang
In recent years, adverse local tissue reactions ALTRs have been observed in total hip implants that use CoCrMo femoral head articulating against highly-crosslinking polyethylene HXLPE liner, raising an urgent concern to the biomedical community...
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Advanced Electron Microscopy Characterization of Metal-on-Polyethylene Total Hip Replacement Retrievals comments

by Kathryn Grandfield Vicky Vuong
First introduced over a century ago, total hip arthroplasty THA is a refined surgical intervention that allows for the recovery of function in a patient s debilitated hip joint for up to 10 to 15 years 1 , 2 ...
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