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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

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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Bone Collagen Denatures During Cortical Bone Fracture comments

by Thomas Willett Corin Seelemann
Bone is a calcified structural tissue, present in all vertebrate life. Fundamentally, bone is a composite primarily composed of a highly substituted, poorly crystalline hydroxyapatite mineral phase and a primarily collagenous organic phase...
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Investigation on the physical-chemical and biological properties of Ti surfaces treated by AC Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) comments

by Fabio Variola Sara Martinelli
Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation PEO is a simple and cost effective electrochemical technique for the surface modification of metals which recently gained great interest in the biomedical field for its ability to generate a bioactive porous oxide layer on widely used orthopedic metals, such as titanium and its alloys 1 ...
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Development of a Biocompatible Upconversion Nanoparticle Model for Theranostic Applications in Anti-angiogenesis comments

by Jin Zhang Wai Hei (Andrew) Tse
Theranostic nanoparticles, which combine pharmaceutics and diagnostic capabilities into one entity, are of particular interest in a new generation of tailored drugs...
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T lymphocytes Encapsulated in Chitosan Microbeads as a Localised Immunotherapy: In vitro and In vivo results comments

by Sophie Lerouge Nicholas Cunningham
Adoptive cell therapy ACT , where cancer-responsive T lymphocytes are administered systemically to patients, is a promising cancer immunotherapy...
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Optimal Biomaterials for Tracheal Epithelial Grafts: A Systematic Comparative Analysis comments

by Ratna Varma
Tracheal injury, stenosis, and malignancy demand surgical management and repair. While end-to-end anastomosis can treat smaller lesions, it is limited for larger lesions as those greater than half the length of an adult trachea and a third of the length of a pediatric trachea cannot be safely resected1...
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