Canadian Biomaterials Society
La Société Canadienne des Biomatériaux

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Hydrogels have wide applications in tissue engineering and bioelectronics. In spite of widespread applications of functional hydrogels with superior conductive or magnetic responsive performances, there are still some limitations caused by insufficient flexibility, resilience and responsive sensitivity in some fields, such as highly flexible electronics, organic pressure sensitive sensors, and responsive actuators...

Over 900,000 bone-grafting procedures are performed each year in the USA 1 . Human bone allografts are used in the orthopaedic reconstruction of skeletal defects resulting from traumatic injuries, diseases and revision arthroplasty however, bone allografts have insufficient mechanical properties 2 and graft fracture is a documented clinical failure mode 3 ...

Urinary tract infection associated with the use of urethral catheters is one of the most common infections in health care facilities...

Growing an organoid in a 3D culture requires careful control over the chemical and mechanical signals presented to cells via careful selection of media formulations and extracellular matrix ECM materials...

Cells sense and respond to mechanical cues from surrounding biological or artificial substrates through lamellipodia and filopodia 1 ...