Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

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The rapid emergence of drug resistant pathogens is the major dilemma of this era. In fact, World Health Organization WHO has stated a dire warning that we are entering an era of post-antibiotics and hence, there is a pressing need to find novel ways to empower the drug resistant pathogens...

Stem cell therapy is a promising treatment for various degenerative diseases including myocardial infarction precipitated heart failure...

The inability of cartilage tissue to self-repair has been well established and is attributed to its inherent avascularity...

The cornea is the most important refractive component of the ocular system 1 . Corneal epithelial cells are exposed to shear stresses that are caused by the eyelids during blinking 2 ...

Cell therapy is increasingly used to treat various diseases such myocardial infarction. This therapeutic approach is limited however by the poor retention and diminished survival of transplanted cells in the ischemic, inflammatory and oxidative infarct microenvironment...