Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

In this issue of the new-look CBS Newsletter Details on CBS 2018 in Victoria, student travel award winners, updates on student chapter activities from across the country, and new award opportunities...

CBS-KSC is very excited to announce that we have organized a professional development webinar, targeted at biomedical students, with the Cheeky Scientist Association for more information about CSA, please visit https cheekyscientist...

The latest edition of the CBS Newsletter is now available, with updates on the planning of CBS 2018 in Victoria, a summary of our 2017 meeting in Winnipeg, profiles of the new Board members, and updates from our always active student chapters...

CBS is soliciting for members of our new standing Awards Committee, which will be responsible for promoting and adjudicating all our CBS awards including two new WBC 2016 Legacy Awards ...

Lipid-modified low molecular weight polyethyleneimines LMW PEIs are promising non-viral gene delivery systems that have been successfully explored for the treatment of various diseases through the delivery of plasmid DNA pDNA or mRNA to expression therapeutic proteins thereby restoring the defective protein, for the knockdown of aberrant proteins using RNA interference RNAi with short interfering RNA siRNA or for the complete knockout of the gene using CRISPR technology 1, 2 ...

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...

Electrospinning is a simple fabrication technique used to create fibrous scaffolds with properties such as high surface area-to-volume ratio and porosity that make them applicable for wound dressings1...

Critical-sized segmental bone defects CSBDs resulting from bone tumor resection, severe fractures, traumatic injuries, and severe infection resection are significant orthopedic challenges 1 ...

The rapid emergence of drug resistant pathogens is the major dilemma of this era. In fact, World Health Organization WHO has stated a dire warning that we are entering an era of post-antibiotics and hence, there is a pressing need to find novel ways to empower the drug resistant pathogens...