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New Board of Directors of CBS 0 comments

by Nima Khadem Mohtaram
We would like to update you on new Board of Directors of CBS. As of June 21st 2019, We have President Nima Khadem Mohtaram University of Waterloo 2019 - 2020 President Elect Kibret Mequanint Western University 2019 - 2020 - President 2020-2021 Past President Sophie Lerouge Ecole de Technologie Superieure ETS - CRCHUM 2019-2020 Board Members Fabio Variola University of Ottawa 2019-2021 Isabelle Catelas University of Ottawa 2018-2020 Thomas Willett University of Waterloo 2018-2020 Milica Radisic University of Toronto 2018-2020 Mohsen Akbari University of Victoria 2018-2020 Student Board Member Laura McKiel Queen s University 2019-2020
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WBC 2020 Workshop Proposals 0 comments

by Todd Hoare
As you may have noticed already, the WBC2020 Executive Committee is calling for workshop proposals. We hereby would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to submit your proposals before the deadline of June 30th 2019...
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Next AGM on May 22nd 0 comments

by Sophie Lerouge
Dear CBS members, Our Annual General Meeting will take place during the CBS2019 on May 22nd, at 12 15 in the Suzor Room...
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Spring Newsletter 0 comments

by Sophie Lerouge
Dear CBS members, The CBS Spring Newsletter is now online, featuring information on the CBS2019 program, list of awardees and updates from student chapters...
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Modifying Modular Tissue Engineering for Subcutaneous Pancreatic Islet Transplantation comments

by Alexander Vlahos
Almost 300 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with diabetes, and this number continues to rise each year 1 ...
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Mineralized Bovine Tendon Sheets Prepared Through Alternate Soaking for Bone Tissue Regeneration comments

by Brendan Grue
Alternatives to existing implantable materials ex. metals or autologous grafts for bone tissue repair and regeneration are needed to improve patient outcomes and avoid the complications caused by issues such as stress shielding and donor site morbidity 1 ...
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Raman Spectroscopic and Mechanical Property Changes Caused by Ex Vivo Endocortical Fluoride Infusion of Cortical Bone comments

by Sidney Omelon
The influence of fluoride on bone material properties is a complicated phenomenon. There are many possible mechanisms that fluoride ions could have on the biological processes, bone mineral chemistry, and bone mineral collagen interface properties 1 ...
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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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Production of Green Biocellulose Nanofibers By Utilizing Renewable Resources of Algae comments

by Yaser Dahman
In recent years, interest on algae is continuously increasing due to high demand of energy and high price of fossil fuels increased our focus on alternative or replacement of fossil fuels...
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