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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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Prostaglandin E(2) Reverses Scar Tissue Production in Human Kidney Epithelial Cells: Implications for Biomaterial Implantation. comments

by Kim Jones Kimia Sorouri
Myofibroblasts have been implicated in scar tissue formation around biomaterials. When biomaterials are implanted as part of a tissue engineered construct, as a sensor, as a prosthetic or even as a drug delivery device, scar formation fibrosis around the biomaterial often interferes with the intended function...
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Synthesis and 3D Printing of Thermally Stable and Photo-Cross-Linkable Coumarin Functionalized Aliphatic Polycarbonates comments

by Fei Chen
Melt Electrospinning Writing MEW as an emerging additive manufacturing 3D printing technology is gaining increasing interest because it enables fabrication of micrometer-thin fibrous scaffolds with unique control over porosity and interconnectivity...
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A Novel Mussle-Inspired Elastic and Conductive Cryogel for Muscle Tissue Engineering comments

by Leyu Wang
The muscle tissues in human body, including cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle, play the vital role in maintaining life and human body motion...
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Influence of Fluorinated Divinyl Urethane Monomers on Resin Composite Chemical Biostability and Physical Properties comments

by Michael Lagowski
In Dentistry, resin composite materials take advantage of unique properties from the individual composite s components to address the clinical challenge of restoring tooth damage due to congenital deformation, trauma, and or decay dental caries ...
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“On-demand” nanofibrous poly(oligo ethylene glycol methacrylate) (POEGMA) hydrogel scaffolds with layered co-encapsulated cells via reactive electrospinning comments

by Todd Hoare Fei XU
In the last two decades, hydrogels have been widely explored for tissue regeneration due to their tunable mechanics, cell compatibility, ease of functionalization, and similarity to soft tissues...
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