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Call for Members - CBS Awards Committee 0 comments

by Todd Hoare
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 ...
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2nd Biomaterials Symposium of the Quebec Chapter 0 comments

by Caroline Loy
The Quebec City Chapter is organising its 2nd Symposium on October 27th. This symposium aims to provide a forum for learning and discussion related to the field of biomaterials and to stimulate communication within a multidisciplinary community of students, academics, clinicians, and industry representatives...
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CBS-KSC Presents: Webinar with Dr. Gaétan Laroche 0 comments

by Laura McKiel
CBS-KSC is proud to host our first webinar, happening on August 9, 2017 at 1 00 pm EST We are very excited to have Dr...
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Quebec Student Chapter Seminar On June 5th 0 comments

by Caroline Loy
Quebec city student chapter is hosting a seminar of Annika Jokinen, Application Scientist at BioNavis...
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Tunable mucoadhesion and mucopenetration using self-assembled brush-block copolymer-based nanoparticles comments

by Todd Hoare Ridhdhi Dave
Self-assembled nanoparticles NPs based on block copolymers of poly ethylene glycol and poly lactic-co-glycolic acid PEG-PLGA have been widely applied across multiple drug delivery applications including ophthalmic delivery as effective nanoscale carriers of drugs 1 ...
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Hybrid crosslinking of gelatin methacrylate hydrogel with highly tunable stiffness and degradation comments

by Evelyn Yim Muhammad Rizwan
Naturally-bioactive hydrogels, such as gelatin methacrylate GelMA , provide favorable properties for tissue-engineering applications, but lack strength and require complex fabrication or multi-component additives, to improve material strength, which can compromise other properties...
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Modulation of the biophysical & biochemical properties of collagen by glycation for tissue engineering applications comments

by Laurent Bozec Mina Vaez
The structural and functional properties of collagen are modulated by the presence of intramolecular and intermolecular crosslinks...
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Bioprinting an in vitro Head and Neck Cancer Model Using a Decellularized Extracellular Matrix Bioink comments

by Joseph Kinsella Jacqueline Kort-Mascort
Squamous cancer of the head and neck HNSCC is the 6th leading cancer by incidence worldwide and is known for commonly metastasizing to the lymphatic system and the bony structures in the head and neck regions...
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Bioinspired multifunctional tough gel sheathed surgical suture comments

by Jianyu Li Zhenwei Ma
Surgical sutures are the gold-standard wound closure materials for centuries. However, they might induce tissue drag, damaging and dissecting delicate and fragile soft tissues and blood vessels, and cause body fluid air leakage...
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  • Hamid Goodarzi: In situ printing of pro-regeneration biomaterials for corneal regeneration
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  • Shivam Chadha: anionic microgels for oral antibody delivery
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  • Thamali Kariyawasam: Engineering living photosynthetic algal-based wound dressing for diabetic foot ulcers
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  • Kate MacQuarrie: Smooth muscle cell-like support cells accelerate the autologous endothelialization of a polyurethane scaffold for vascular engineering
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  • Alma Tamunonengiofori Banigo: Bioactive Hydrogels Based on Tyramine and Maleimide Functionalized Dextran for Tissue Engineering Applications
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  • Alma Tamunonengiofori Banigo: Injectable hydrogels for cartilage tissue engineering: key design needs toward clinical applications
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  • Alma Tamunonengiofori Banigo: Hydrogel-Based Bioinks for Coaxial and Triaxial Bioprinting: A Review of Material Properties, Printing Techniques, and Applications
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