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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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Morphological differences between pseudotumors in patients with Metal on Metal and Metal on Polyethylene hip implants comments

by Felipe Eltit
Adverse tissue reactions are the most common causes of implant failure, they can affect up to 40 of patients with Metal on Metal MoM implants in the first five years of implantation, and a lower but non-negligible number of Metal on Polyethylene MoP and Ceramic on Polyethylene implants 1 ...
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Effects of Cobalt and Chromium Ions on Glycolysis in Macrophages in vitro comments

by Zeina Salloum
Cobalt and chromium ions released from cobalt-chromium-molybdenum CoCrMo -based implants are a serious health concern as they can compromise the functionality of these implants due to adverse tissue reactions 1 ...
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Surface modification of PLA films for biomedical applications using nitrogen and argon atmospheric plasma treatments comments

by Gaétan Laroche saeideh shokrollahi tooranposhti
In the past few decades, stents have been widely used in clinical applications to treat blocked vessels...
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Highly flexible and resilient elastin hybrid cryogels with shape memory, injectability, conductivity and magnetic responsive properties comments

by Mengqiu (Malcolm) Xing YUQING LIU
Hydrogels have wide applications in tissue engineering and bioelectronics. In spite of widespread applications of functional hydrogels with superior conductive or magnetic responsive performances, there are still some limitations caused by insufficient flexibility, resilience and responsive sensitivity in some fields, such as highly flexible electronics, organic pressure sensitive sensors, and responsive actuators...
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Bioactive glass foams as bone graft substitutes comments

by Cindy Charbonneau
Bioactive 45S5 Bioglass has been used commercially since the mid-eighties as bone graft substitute...
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