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Call for Symposia: WBC 2024 0 comments

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 ...
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CBS Fall 2022 Newsletter 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
The Fall 2022 edition of the CBS Newsletter has been released. You can access it here.
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CBS 2023 Annual Meeting at Dalhousie University 0 comments

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...
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CBS mentorship and Professional Development Program: Information Session 0 comments

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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Magnetically Activated Glass Transition (Tg) Switch Nanocomposites for On-demand Drug Delivery comments

by Todd Hoare Somiraa Said
On-demand drug release has great potential in post-surgical pain control, infection treatment, hormonal therapy, and chemotherapy...
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Bioprinting Neural Tissue comments

by Stephanie Willerth Michaela Thomas
Neurodegenerative disease, stroke, and traumatic brain injury cause neuron death in the central nervous system, resulting in decreased motor, sensory, and or processing capability 1 ...
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Fabrication and Characterization of Shear Thinning Biomaterial for Intra-tumoral Delivery of Doxorubicin comments

by Sadaf Samimi Gharaie
Doxorubicin is widespread and influential apoptosis-inducing drug in cancer chemotherapy which interdicts DNA replication and treats different types of cancers including, benign, potentially-malignant, glioblastoma malignant tumours 1 2 3 ...
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Liposomal blood lactate assay: a study in fresh capillary blood from human volunteers comments

by Simon Matoori
Clinical practice guidelines for sepsis recommend serum lactate for disease staging, prognosis, and assessment of treatment response 1 ...
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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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