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WBC2024 Plenary Speaker Recommendation Closes October 4 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
Dear CBS Members, The World Biomaterials Congress 2024 WBC2024 is soliciting recommendations for plenary speakers...
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BioInnovation Institute & Science Prize for Innovation 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
Through the BioInnovation Institute Science Prize for Innovation, the editors of Science seek to recognize bold researchers who are asking fundamental questions at the intersection of the life sciences and entrepreneurship...
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Call for Applications: CBS Mentorship And Professional Development Program 0 comments

by Amanda Clifford
We are pleased to open the call for applications for the CBS Mentorship and Professional Development, a program specifically designed to connect professionals outside of academia with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows coming from the Canadian biomaterial s community...
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14th Intl Symposium on Biodegradable Metals for Biomedical Applications 0 comments

by Neda Latifi
14th Intl Symposium on Biodegradable Metals for Applications on behalf of Professor Mantovani and the Quebec City Student Chapter Want to discover the next generation of bioresorbable metals aiming to bridge the gap between biomaterials and tissue engineering for pediatric, dental, orthopedic, vascular, cardiac, neurological applications, and more? The final program of the upcoming 14th Intl Symposium on Biodegradable Metals for Biomedical Applications is now online...
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BACTERIAL CELLULOSE: MATRIX FOR BIOACTIVE DRESSING PRODUCTION IN WOUND HEALING SKIN comments

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Dressings are an important segment of medical and pharmaceutical market for the treatment of wounds throughout the world and have been subjected to an evolutionary process from natural materials, which simply cover and protect the wound, to materials able to promote the delivery of active compounds, facilitating the healing process...
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Development of Ester-free vinyl Monomers for Dental Restorative Applications: Physical and Biological Characterization comments

by Zach Gouveia
Current dental resin restorations experience enzymatic degradation and lack the durability of amalgam restorations, thereby limiting their lifetime in vivoADDIN CSL CITATION citationItems id ITEM-1 , itemData DOI 10...
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Homo and Copolymerization Kinetics of Trimethylene Carbonate Bearing a Methoxyethoxy Side Group comments

by Fei Chen
Polymers prepared from trimethylene carbonate bearing a pendant methoxyethoxy side group exhibit a thermoresponsive nature and thus are potentially of interest as biomaterials...
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A novel bioprinted cardiac tissue-on-a-chip with a gelatin and fibrin based bioink laden with human induced pluripotent stem cell derived-cardiomyocytes comments

by Stephanie Willerth
Traditional bioinks used for bioprinting do not generally possess high fidelity and biocompatibility, and hence, fail to reproduce the complexity in biological organs or tissues in vivo...
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Toward Engineered Microvasculature: Harnessing Gel-based Microfluidics and MSC-induced Vascular Self-Assembly using Fibrin-Collagen Co-gels comments

by Craig Simmons Ross Fitzsimmons
The development of vasculature remains a major challenge in the generation of viable engineered tissue constructs...
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