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One Week Left to Submit Late Breaking Abstracts! 2023 TERMIS-AM Annual Conference 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
Dear CBS Members, There is only one week left to submit late breaking abstracts for the annual TERMIS-AM conference this April in Boston You can submit your abstracts here...
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WBC 2016 Legacy Travel Award Deadline Extension 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
The deadline for to apply for a WBC 2016 Lecacy Travel Award has been extended to Wednesday, March 1st, 2023...
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Request for Proposals to Host WBC 2028 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
Dear Members, The IUSBSE has issued a call for proposals to host the World Biomaterials Congress WBC in May 2028...
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CBS 2023: Abstract Submission Open 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
Dear Members, Abstract submission is open for CBS 2023 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS. Please submit your abstract on the conference website www...
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Effect of Electrical Stimulation through a Soft Polypyrrole Membrane on the Behaviors of Human Skin Keratinocytes comments

by Ze Zhang Shujun Cui
Keratinocytes as the principal skin cell type play a major role in wound closure 1. And electrical stimulation ES has been found effective in promoting wound healing 2...
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New insights into the corrosion products from modular total hip implants comments

by Qiong Wang
Corrosion on modular hip implants is a complicated process accelerated by mechanical abrasion. There are two types of mechanically assisted corrosion on modular hip implants - tribocorrosion from the bearing surface and fretting corrosion from modular interfaces...
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Injectable Macroporous Hydrogels using Perfluorcarbon Emulsions as Porogens comments

by Todd Hoare Samaneh Toufanian
Injectable hydrogels that can be delivered using needles offer particular advantages in biomedical applications given that these hydrogels do not require invasive surgical implantation, thereby reducing recovery time for patients, reducing costs, and in many cases enabling direct encapsulation, rather than post-encapsulation, of cells during the gel formation process 1 ...
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Development of Chitosan Coatings by Plasma-Grafting for Prevention of Contamination for Medical Devices comments

by Juliana M. Vaz
Bacterial contamination is a public health and socio-economic problem. In Canada, 220,000 people will develop nosocomial infections each year, 8,000 will die and 106...
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3D Hyaluronan Dual-Click Chemistry Hydrogels as Matrices for Breast Spheroid Formation comments

by Molly Shoichet Alexander Baker
Terminal ductal lobular structures are the main functioning unit of mammary glands and the most common site for breast carcinogenesis the cited reference is missing author and title details ...
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