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Save the Date for CBS2026! June 2–5, 2026 0 comments

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Overview The Canadian Biomaterials Society CBS , the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences CSPS , and the Controlled Release Society cc-CRS are joining forces to host a landmark joint conference at UBC Vancouver...
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CBS Eastern Canada Research Day - Abstracts due Sept 15th 0 comments

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Dear CBS Members Colleagues, We are excited to share that four of our Eastern Canada student chapters have organized a 2025 Canadian Biomaterials Society Eastern Canada Student Research Day ...
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CBS Board of Directors Elections 2025 and CBS2027 Update 0 comments

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Dear CBS Member, I have a two important news items to communicate 1. CBS Board Member Elections It is now time to cast your votes for open positions on the CBS Board of Directors...
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Measurement of the Mechanical Properties of Native Type I Collagen Fibrils Using Atomic Force Microscopy comments

by Guangyu Bao
Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular space of various connective tissues in animal bodies...
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3D Bioprinting Human Models of Parkinson’s Diseases comments

by Ruchi Sharma
Somatic cells skin or blood cells from Parkinson s disease PD patients carrying mutations can be reprogrammed into human induced pluripotent stem cells hiPSCs using transcription factors...
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The Effects of pHEMA Hydrogel Material Properties on Lens Epithelial and Neutrophil-Like Cells comments

by Laura Wells Jordan Pernari
When treating cataracts, opacified lenses are replaced by surgically inserted artificial intraocular lenses IOLs ...
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Microfluidic Generation of Core Shell Multicellular Cancer Spheroids comments

by Albert Gevorkian
It is currently established that two-dimensional 2D cancer cell culture fails to recapitulate the essential features of in vivo tumor growth...
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Polydopamine-Functionalized Agarose Microspheres for 3D Engineered Neuronal Cultures comments

by Hallie Arnott
Developing biomimetic 3D constructs to study neuronal networks in vitro is critical to address the limitations of conventional 2D cultures used in pre-clinical studies...
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