Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

Dear CBS Members, This is a friendly reminder that the abstract deadline for CBS2025 is today Submit your abstracts here...

Calling all ECR Faculty Members for Keynote Presentation Opportunities Dear CBS Members, A feature of CBS2025 will be presentations from current Early Career Researcher ECR faculty member highlighting their expertise and new research...

CBS2025 abstract submission deadline is extended until February 7th We know it is a busy time of year and so 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 February 7th, 2025 please note that this will be the last extension The CBS2025 Organizing Committee invites you to submit your abstracts related to biomaterials research through the Oxford Abstracts submission portal...

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

Alternatives to existing implantable materials ex. metals or autologous grafts for bone tissue repair and regeneration are needed to improve patient outcomes and avoid the complications caused by issues such as stress shielding and donor site morbidity 1 ...

Collagen mineralization is an important process for the formation of bone and other mineralized connective tissues...

Hydrogels have been extensively studied as scaffolds for tissue engineering due to their cell compatibility and similar mechanical properties as native soft tissues...

Collagen molecules are the smallest functional components of collagenous tissues and self-assemble to form fibrils...

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 ...