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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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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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Nano-spray therapy for treating heart attacks comments

by Emilio Alarcon Marcelo Munoz
We present a nano-spray therapy for on-the spot-repair of a heart attack. Our sprayable therapy uses nano-engineered peptide-based materials, where nanomolar concentrations of surface engineered spherical nanogold are used to coat the surface of the cardiac muscle...
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Engineering personalized neural tissue using the novel functionalized transcription factor IASCL1 comments

by Stephanie Willerth
The transcription factor Ascl1 plays a key role in neural development and previous work by the Wernig group demonstrated that Ascl1 overexpression using viral vectors can reprogram fibroblasts directly in neurons through the process of cellular reprogramming ADDIN EN...
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The Co-Delivery of Syngeneic Adipose-derived Stem/Stromal Cells and Macrophages on Decellularized Adipose Tissue Bioscaffolds for In Vivo Adipose Tissue Regeneration comments

by Hisham Kamoun
Adipose tissue has a limited capacity for repair following trauma, disease, or post-oncologic surgical resection...
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Manipulation of Nanocomposite Phase Behaviour upon Inclusion of a Calcium Salt and Evaluation of the Resulting First Generation Nanocomposite Ink with MG63 Cells comments

by Patricia Comeau
Current methods for reconstructing critically-sized bone defects CSBD have significant shortcomings1...
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