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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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2022 Conference Update 0 comments

by Larry D. Unsworth
Dear Colleagues Breaking News Joining Prof. Jennifer Elisseeff Johns Hopkins is both Prof. W. Wagner AND Prof...
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2022 Conference Update 0 comments

by Larry D. Unsworth
Dear Colleagues Breaking News We are so excited that Prof. Jennifer Elisseeff Johns Hopkins has accepted our invitation to be a Plenary Speaker for the upcoming 2022 CBS Conference in Banff Prof...
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CBS Mentorship and Professional Development Program 0 comments

by Neda Latifi
Why register in the CBS mentorship and professional development program? A PhD for what and then what? This is a question I asked myself during my PhD and my two postdocs...
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Development of a Novel Method for the Strengthening and Toughening of Irradiation-Sterilized Bone Allografts used in Orthopaedic Reconstructions comments

by Thomas Willett Tarik Attia
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 ...
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Engineering of Biomimetic Vascular Substitutes by a Combinatorial Approach comments

by Corinne Hoesli Mariève Boulanger
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...
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Fabrication of melanin containing nanofiber scaffolds for neural tissue engineering comments

by Janice McKenzie Patrick McGee
Tissue engineering is an advancing field due in part to the development of polymers in geometries and dimensions similar to those found in the native extracellular matrix...
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Optimizing the T-SLICE to Model the Tumour Microenvironment In Vitro comments

by Brendan Leung
The tumour microenvironment TME describes the non-cancerous cellular and non-cellular components of solid tumours 1 ...
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Differential dynamic microscopy: a powerful technique towards in vivo characterization of nanomedicines comments

by Marine Le Goas
In both nanomedicine and nanotoxicology fields, understanding the interaction of nanoparticles NPs with biological systems is key...
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