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The 2022 Biomaterials Challenge 0 comments

by Neda Latifi
The Ottawa Student Chapter is pleased to present The 2022 Biomaterials Challenge We challenge graduate and undergraduate students in Ontario to compete on explaining How to select a biomaterial? and What is biocompatibility? to 7th-grade students in a 3-minute recorded video or an infographic Deadline to submit March 10th, 2022
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2022 Conference Update 0 comments

by Larry D. Unsworth
Dear Colleagues Breaking News Joining Prof. Jennifer Elisseeff Johns Hopkins is both Prof. W. Wagner AND Prof...
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2022 Conference Update 0 comments

by Larry D. Unsworth
Dear Colleagues Breaking News We are so excited that Prof. Jennifer Elisseeff Johns Hopkins has accepted our invitation to be a Plenary Speaker for the upcoming 2022 CBS Conference in Banff Prof...
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CBS Mentorship and Professional Development Program 0 comments

by Neda Latifi
Why register in the CBS mentorship and professional development program? A PhD for what and then what? This is a question I asked myself during my PhD and my two postdocs...
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Advanced Electron Microscopy Characterization of Metal-on-Polyethylene Total Hip Replacement Retrievals comments

by Kathryn Grandfield Vicky Vuong
First introduced over a century ago, total hip arthroplasty THA is a refined surgical intervention that allows for the recovery of function in a patient s debilitated hip joint for up to 10 to 15 years 1 , 2 ...
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Short Aliphatic Lipid Substitution on Low Molecular Weight Polyethylenimine: Effect on siRNA Complexation from Molecular Dynamics Simulation Studies comments

by Hasan Uludag Deniz Meneksedag-Erol
Post transcriptional silencing of aberrant genes with the delivery of short interfering RNA siRNA has been a potent approach to cancer therapy over the last decade...
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Study of Correlations between QCT and DXA Derived Femur Cross-Sectional Mechanical Properties comments

by Huijuan Yang
Femur cross-sectional mechanical properties such as axial and bending stiffness are important parameters for assessing bone quality and evaluating hip fracture risk 1 ...
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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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Bioactive glass foams as bone graft substitutes comments

by Cindy Charbonneau
Bioactive 45S5 Bioglass has been used commercially since the mid-eighties as bone graft substitute...
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