Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

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

Modern medicine relies on the efficient delivery of drugs to treat infections and diseases. Ideally, these drugs should be administered at the exact concentration needed, target the affected area only and not harm healthy cells or tissues...

Polypyrrole PPy has shown considerable potential in biomedicine and energy storage owing to its inherent electrical conductivity, easy synthesis, potential of chemical modification, and biocompatibility 1,2 ...

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 ...

The human mucus layer plays an important role in host defense. In areas such as the airway and gastrointestinal GI tract, the mucus lining acts as a physical barrier to pathogens while providing a microenvironment for commensal bacteria 1 ...