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by Lindsay Fitzpatrick
Join us in Kingston, Ontario for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society Dates May 21-23, 2025 Location Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario Stay tuned for more information...
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by Isabelle Catelas
Dear CBS members, It is my pleasure to announce the new Board of Directors of the CBS for 2024 - 2025...
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by Todd Hoare
Dear friends - here are the final details for the upcoming hybrid CBS Annual General Meeting In-person May 29, 2024, 8 30 AM KST in room 504 of EXCO Center Online May 28, 2024, 7 30 PM EDT at Zoom link https mcgill...
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Preparation of chitin-amphipathic anion / quaternary ammonium salt eco-friendly dressing and its effect on wound healing in mice comments

by Mengqiu (Malcolm) Xing ruijia yang
Chitin is a natural biocompatible polysaccharide made of N-acetyl-2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucose linked through 13-1,4 glycosidic linkages...
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Injectable thermosensitive hydrogel for dendritic cells immunomodulation in promoting anti-inflammatory T-cell response comments

by Yi Zhu
Dendritic cells DCs are antigen-presenting cells and play an essential role in bridging the innate and adaptive immune responses 1 ...
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An electrode-integrated hydrogel system to model Parkinson Disease in vitro comments

by Fabio Variola Alp Ozgun
Recent efforts from the scientific community have focused on the development of in vitro systems that recapitulate key components of the complex architecture of tissues and organ functions, showing tremendous potential for disease modelling as well as drug development and discovery...
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Engineering a Vascularised Encapsulation Device for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes comments

by Corinne Hoesli Stephanie Fernandez
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder which causes the destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells...
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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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