Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Happy Monday There are two upcoming events that may be of interest to CBS members and our local biomaterials community...

Abstract deadline extended We are happy to announce that the CBS 2025 abstract submission deadline for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Biomaterial Society has been extended until January 30th, 2025 The CBS2025 Organizing Committee invites you to submit your abstracts related to biomaterials research through the Oxford Abstracts submission portal...

Calling all abstracts The CBS2025 Organizing Committee invites you to submit your abstracts related to biomaterials research through the Oxford Abstracts submission portal...

Diabetes mellitus is a complex metabolic disorder from that more than 463 million people worldwide are suffering...

Knee osteoarthritis KOA is the most common osteoarthritis that affects over 10 of Canadians. It occurs in almost all demographics and individuals with injured articular cartilage AC are especially at risk of KOA development...

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 ...

Critical Size Bone Defects CSBDs result from bone loss or damage greater than the self-healing capacity of the bone tissue itself...

The inability of cartilage tissue to self-repair has been well established and is attributed to its inherent avascularity...