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The deadline for the WBC2016 Legacy Travel Award has been extended to March 2, 2026, to match the abstract deadline extension for the CBS CSPS CC-CRS Conference...
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Dear members and friends of the Canadian Biomaterials Society, The abstract deadline has been extended to March 2nd, 2026 for the upcoming CBS CCPS cc-CRS 2026 meeting this June in Vancouver, BC...
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CBS 2026 Meeting News! 0 comments

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Dear friends , For this years annual meeting in beautiful Vancouver, BC June 2 - 5 2026 we are happy to partner with the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences CSPS and the Canadian Chapter of the Controlled Release Society cc-CRS ...
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Call for Abstracts for CBS/CSPS/cc-CRS Conference is now open! 0 comments

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Call for Abstracts is OPEN The Canadian Biomaterials Society CBS , the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences CSPS , and the Controlled Release Society cc-CRS are joining forces to host a landmark joint conference at UBC Vancouver...
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Preparation of chitin-amphipathic anion / quaternary ammonium salt eco-friendly dressing and its effect on wound healing in mice comments

by Mengqiu (Malcolm) Xing ruijia yang
Chitin is a natural biocompatible polysaccharide made of N-acetyl-2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucose linked through 13-1,4 glycosidic linkages...
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Effects of Ribose and Annealing on the Free Radical Content and Mechanical Properties of Gamma-Irradiated Sterilized Bone comments

by Thomas Willett
In the production of bone allografts used in orthopaedic reconstructions, high dose -irradiation sterilization is often used to limit biological risk to the graft recipient...
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Polycaprolactone as biodegradable polymer for the fabrication and In vitro release studies of purmorphamine-loaded microspheres to engineer neural tissue comments

by Stephanie Willerth Laura De la Vega Reyes
Treatment for diseases in the central nervous system are challenging because of the physical and biochemical barriers that comprise the blood brain barrier and the blood-spinal cord barrier BSCB 1 ...
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Using a Mathematical Model to Study the Neuronal Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Seeded on Melt Electrospun Biomaterial Scaffolds comments

by Stephanie Willerth Meghan Hall
Human induced pluripotent stem cells hiPSCs have two prominent properties pluripotency and the ability to self-renew...
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Layer-by-layer paper-stacking nano fibrous membranes to deliver adipose-derived stem cells for bone regeneration comments

by Wen Zhong Helen H. Hsu
Bone defects, especially large ones, still present a significant challenge in orthopedic tissue engineering, due to the limited self-repair capacity of bone tissues...
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