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2022 CBS Conference Update March 31, 2022 0 comments

by Larry D. Unsworth
Dear friends, CBS2022 is in full swing now, and we are looking forward to welcoming in-person and on-line attendees Here are some brief highlights 1...
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Online Biomaterials Symposium by CBS-TSC 0 comments

by Neda Latifi
Canadian Biomaterials Society s Toronto Student Chapter is proud to present our Inaugural Biomaterials Symposium, a one-day event taking place on Tuesday, March 29th Join us online to learn and network with speakers across three universities in the GTA, as well as representatives from biomedical start-ups in the city...
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Online Conference by CBS-OSC: BIOMATERIALS AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE (BRMC 2022) 0 comments

by Neda Latifi
SAVE THE DATE BIOMATERIALS AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE BRMC 2022 Date March 21st and 22nd, 2022 Time 10 am to 4 pm Place Virtual through Zoom Register here https www...
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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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Delivery of Protein-Based Therapies Targeting the Regeneration and Repair of Cardiac Tissues comments

by Paul J Santerre Shirley Chung
Leading edge regenerative therapies targeting heart failure have utilized the delivery of cardiac progenitor cells to improve heart function...
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Characterizing the Mechanisms of ASC-Mediated Adipose Tissue Regeneration in a Syngeneic Murine Implant Model comments

by Lauren Flynn John Walker
Adipose tissue has a high capacity for expansion and regression throughout mammalian life. Nevertheless, following reconstructive surgeries designed to augment adipose depots, or tissue injury, adipose tissue displays limited regenerative capacity, and is instead often replaced with scar tissue...
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Engineering personalized neural tissue using the novel functionalized transcription factor IASCL1 comments

by Stephanie Willerth
The transcription factor Ascl1 plays a key role in neural development and previous work by the Wernig group demonstrated that Ascl1 overexpression using viral vectors can reprogram fibroblasts directly in neurons through the process of cellular reprogramming ADDIN EN...
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Modulation of host-pathogen interaction in an engineered mucus microenvironment comments

by Brendan Leung Andy Huang
The human mucus layer plays an important role in host defense. In areas such as the airway and gastrointestinal GI tract, the mucus lining acts as a physical barrier to pathogens while providing a microenvironment for commensal bacteria 1 ...
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Targeting cell cycle proteins in breast cancer cells by siRNA using lipid-substituted polyethylenimine comments

by Hasan Uludag Manoj Parmar
There are significant limitations side effects to all breast cancer chemotherapy regimens, radiation and surgical treatments, which urgently warrant a search for alternative and more effective therapies...
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