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Call for Symposia: WBC 2024 0 comments

2 Dec 2022 by Amanda Clifford

The Scientific Program Committee of WBC2024 are soliciting proposals for symposia at the upcoming World Congress in Daegu, Republic of Korea May 26 May 31, 2023 ...

CBS Fall 2022 Newsletter 0 comments

17 Oct 2022 by Amanda Clifford

The Fall 2022 edition of the CBS Newsletter has been released. You can access it here.

CBS 2023 Annual Meeting at Dalhousie University 0 comments

17 Oct 2022 by Amanda Clifford

The 38th CBS annual meeting with be held at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Call for abstracts opens December 1st, 2022, and the Early Bird registration deadline is March 1st, 2023...

CBS mentorship and Professional Development Program: Information Session 0 comments

4 Oct 2022 by Neda Latifi

The Canadian Biomaterials Society is pleased to present The 2022-2023 CBS mentorship and Professional Development Program Join The 2nd Lab and the CBS-QC Student Chapter this Friday, October 7th, 2022 at 5 00 PM for a hybrid information session about this program...

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Injectable and conductive cardiac patches repair infarcted myocardium in rats and minipigs comments

18 Feb 2022 by Mengqiu (Malcolm) Xing Saba Sayyareh

Myocardial infarction MI caused by a blockage in the coronary circulation remains one of the leading causes of mortality...

Human decellularized adipose tissue-derived bead foams enhance the survival and angiogenic response of fibroblasts isolated from human chronic wounds in an in vitro chronic wound model comments

9 Mar 2017 by Pascal Morissette Martin

Chronic wounds and skin ulcers affect many people in industrialized countries, with a high prevalence in the elderly and diabetic populations...

Modulating the inflammatory response of macrophages by delivering pro-resolving mediators comments

9 Feb 2018 by Lindsay Fitzpatrick Rosa Comas

Inflammation is primarily mediated by the innate immune system, and is a necessary stage in healthy wound healing that removes wound debris, prevents infection, and prepares the wound bed for tissue formation...

Bisphosphonate Delivery through Ammonia-induced Calcium Phosphate Insert and Effects on Osteoclastic Resorption Activity comments

31 Jan 2022 by Rizhi Wang Christina Chen

Bisphosphonates are calcium-binding drugs that inhibit the bone-resorbing function of osteoclasts1. Nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates target farnesyl diphosphate synthase, an enzyme of the mevalonate pathway...

Protocol Development for Direct Cellular Reprogramming of Reactive Astrocytes to Neurons Using Modified Neurogenin2, VPA and TNF-α comments

9 Feb 2018 by Ian Fraser

Direct cellular reprogramming is the practice of converting a cell type into another without first converting them into stem cells...

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