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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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Fibronectin Modified Surfaces for Leukemia Cell Adhesion in Evaluating the Influence of Adhesion on Drug Sensitivity comments

by Juliana Valencia Serna
Current therapies with tyrosine kinase inhibitors such as Imatinib against Chronic Myeloid Leukemia CML inhibit production of 99 of fast-dividing cells, which are mostly the ones that remain in suspension through out the circulation system...
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Hybrid crosslinking of gelatin methacrylate hydrogel with highly tunable stiffness and degradation comments

by Evelyn Yim Muhammad Rizwan
Naturally-bioactive hydrogels, such as gelatin methacrylate GelMA , provide favorable properties for tissue-engineering applications, but lack strength and require complex fabrication or multi-component additives, to improve material strength, which can compromise other properties...
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Preparation of a Small Intestinal Submucosa Modified Polypropylene Hybrid Mesh via a Mussel-inspired Polydopamine Coating for Pelvic Reconstruction comments

by Liangpeng Ge
Pelvic organ prolapse POP is a serious health issue that affects many adult women. Surgical treatments for POP patients comprise a common strategy in which scaffold materials are used to reconstruct the prolapsed pelvic...
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Functionalized Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanospheres for drug delivery comments

by Zohreh Jomeh Farsangi
Nanomedicine attempts to enhance the bioavailability of drugs and to reduce their side effects. Creation of functional hollow mesoporous naospheres HMNs could be desirable for biomedical applications since their hollow interior can be used as storage or nanoscale reactor while mesoporous shell providing the controlled uptake release role...
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Self-assembled Oligo-urethane Nanoparticles-Delivery Efficiency of Active Biomolecules into Mammalian Cells comments

by Paul J Santerre Suja Shrestha
Developing safe and effective strategies to deliver biomolecules such as oligonucleotides and proteins into cells has grown in importance over recent years, with an increasing demand for non-viral methods in order to enable clinical translation...
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