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Dear CBS Members and Friends. As our annual general meeting AGM approaches we are actively seeking nominations for available spots on the Board of Directors for the CBS, the student representative, and both secretary and treasurer roles...
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Dear CBS Friends and Members, Please find the Spring 2026 newsletter attached here. Regards, Patricia Comeau, CBS Secretary
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Dear CBS Members and Friends, We have been asked to share the following message on behalf of the organizing committee for our upcoming CBS CSPS cc-CRS meeting in Vancouver, BC...
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Dear Canadian Biomaterials Society Members Friends, A call for late-breaking abstracts has now been released for our upcoming CBS CSPS cc-CRS 2026 meeting this June in sunny Vancouver, BC...
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Novel Green Polyurethanes Nanocellulose Composites for Applications in Tissue Engineering comments

by Yaser Dahman
Scaffolds are a main part of biomaterial science and are used as biodegradable implants that are capable of supporting the host tissue, guiding the tissue to grow within it and degrading in the body as the tissue regenerates 1-3...
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Pharmacological preconditioning improves viability, paracrine activities and neoangiogenesis of hydrogel encapsulated mesenchymal stem cells. comments

by Sophie Lerouge
Stem cell therapy is a promising treatment for various degenerative diseases including myocardial infarction precipitated heart failure...
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Polymer chain mobility dependent fetuin adsorption affects cell proliferation on elastomer surfaces comments

by Brian Amsden Moira Vyner
Tissue cells are known to respond to the stiffness of their substrate, however the mechanism by which they sense substrate stiffness is not well understood...
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Investigation of human bone with plasma focused ion beam reveals mesoscale mineral clusters comments

by Dakota Binkley
The remarkable mechanical properties of bone are attributed to the hierarchical organization of microscopic structures made up of collagen and mineral spanning across the nano- to microscale 1 ...
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Engineering Hydrogels with Tunable Mechanical Properties for Targeted Stem Cell Differentiation comments

by Gaétan Laroche Cristina Lopez Serrano
Successful tissue engineering strategies depend on an accurate replication of key characteristics of the cell environment...
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