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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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CBS 2018-2019 Election Results 0 comments

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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Development of an Injectable, In situ-forming, and Mechanically Resilient Hydrogel for Cell Delivery for Nucleus Pulposus Regeneration comments

by Brian Amsden Hossein Riahinezhad
Intervertebral disk degeneration IVDD is a common disease, especially in elderly people, that causes severe back pain and affects patients mobility and life quality considerably...
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Glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor-releasing nanofibers with varied topographies for neural tissue engineering applications comments

by Stephanie Willerth Nima Khadem Mohtaram
Encapsulated, aligned nanofibers fabricated by solution electrospinning can serve as multifunctional biomaterial scaffolds, due to their desirable topographical and drug delivery properties 1 ...
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Topological Control and Ultra-hydration: Design of a Novel Cryopreservative for Highly Efficient Protein and Lipid Nanoparticle Stabilization comments

by Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu Anna Herrmann
Protein-, lipid- and cell-based products constitute a significant portion of current and upcoming therapeutics and have become a prime focus of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries...
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Engineering personalized neural tissue using the novel functionalized transcription factor IASCL1 comments

by Stephanie Willerth
The transcription factor Ascl1 plays a key role in neural development and previous work by the Wernig group demonstrated that Ascl1 overexpression using viral vectors can reprogram fibroblasts directly in neurons through the process of cellular reprogramming ADDIN EN...
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Development of self-associating SN-38-conjugated poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(ester) micelles for colorectal cancer therapy comments

by Afsaneh Lavasanifar Sams Sadat
The clinical use of 7-ethyl-10-hydroxy-camptothecin SN-38 , the active metabolite of irinotecan, has been hampered because of its practical water-insolubility...
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