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by Sophie Lerouge
Dear CBS members - I am pleased to announce that the WBC2016 Legacy award committee has reviewed all the applications and selected the winners of the Travel awards...
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by Sophie Lerouge
Dear members of the CBS, We need your help to reshape the CBS logo. All details of the contest are indicated in our Fall2018 Newsletter...
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by Sophie Lerouge
I am pleased to inform you that Dr. Mohsen Akbari, Isabelle Catelas, Milica Radisic and Tom Willett have been elected as Senior Board Members and Laura McKiel as Student Board Member...
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Annual General Meeting - May 17, 12PM 0 comments

by Todd Hoare
The Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society will be held on May 17, 2018, 12 00 1 00 PM PST in the Michele Pujol Room at the Student Union Building SUB at the University of Victoria...
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Injectable Anisotropic Hydrogels comments

by Todd Hoare Kevin De France
While injectable hydrogels have several advantages in the context of experimental medicine and tissue engineering, their relatively weak mechanical properties and isotropic network structure often limit their practical applications or translation to clinical use...
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Investigating the response of human dermal and gingival fibroblasts to changes in substratum compliance: Implications for soft tissue biomaterials development. comments

by Sarah Brooks
Development of biomaterials for regeneration of soft tissues still faces critical challenges related to control of cell phenotype and the prevention of contraction scar tissue formation upon implantation...
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Toll-like receptor 2-mediated NF-κB activation by damage-associated molecular patterns on biomaterial surfaces comments

by Lindsay Fitzpatrick Laura McKiel
The innate immune response is the primary defense of the body against infection and injury, and is facilitated largely by white blood cells, such as macrophages...
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Effect of Electrical Stimulation through a Soft Polypyrrole Membrane on the Behaviors of Human Skin Keratinocytes comments

by Ze Zhang Shujun Cui
Keratinocytes as the principal skin cell type play a major role in wound closure 1. And electrical stimulation ES has been found effective in promoting wound healing 2...
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Plasma immersion ion implantation of a Fe-Mn based steel for biomedical applications: effect of different treatment gases on the alloy surface properties, corrosion and cell behavior comments

by Leticia Andrade
Current research on biodegradable iron-based alloys deals with the challenge of modulating the material degradation rate as well as its in vitro cytocompatibility...
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