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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

by Patricia Comeau
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

by Lindsay Fitzpatrick
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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Development of a near-infrared fluorescent blood lactate sensor comments

by Simon Matoori
In emergency medicine, blood lactate levels are a common biomarker for illness severity and treatment response in hypoperfusion-related diseases such as sepsis, trauma, and cardiac arrest 1 ...
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Alginate-Gelatin-Matrigel Hydrogels Enable the Development and Multigenerational Passaging of Patient-Derived 3D Bioprinted Cancer Spheroid Models comments

by Salvador Flores-Torres
Hydrogels consisting of controlled fractions of alginate, gelatin, and Matrigel enable the development of patient-derived bioprinted tissue models that support cancer spheroid growth and expansion...
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Self-assembled Oligo-urethane Nanoparticles: Loading of CRISPR-Cas9 Complex for Non-viral Delivery to Cells comments

by Paul J Santerre Suja Shrestha
Developing safe and efficient strategies to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats-CRISPR associated protein 9 complexes into cells has grown in importance over recent years, with an increasing demand for non-viral methods to enable clinical translation...
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BACTERIAL CELLULOSE: MATRIX FOR BIOACTIVE DRESSING PRODUCTION IN WOUND HEALING SKIN comments

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Dressings are an important segment of medical and pharmaceutical market for the treatment of wounds throughout the world and have been subjected to an evolutionary process from natural materials, which simply cover and protect the wound, to materials able to promote the delivery of active compounds, facilitating the healing process...
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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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