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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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pH-responsive, Antimicrobial-loaded Dressing for Recognition and Eradication of Bacterial Infection in Epidermal Wounds comments

by Mohsen Akbari Bahram Mirani
Infection comprises more than 75 of the mortality in burn wound injuries. Increased scarring and delay in wound healing process are the other detrimental impacts of infection on the burn wounds, necessitating the early detection of the infection at the wound site in clinical practices...
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What Biochemical Assays Can and Cannot Tell You About Biomaterials (AKA Lies That My Assays Told Me) comments

by Marianne Ariganello
In recent years, the development of multiplexing assays collecting multiple endpoints from one single sample has increased in a number of fields including toxicology and drug development ...
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Comparison of loading methods of an antimicrobial agent in electrospun PLGA fibers comments

by Emily Buck
Electrospinning is a simple fabrication technique used to create fibrous scaffolds with properties such as high surface area-to-volume ratio and porosity that make them applicable for wound dressings1...
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T lymphocytes Encapsulated in Chitosan Microbeads as a Localised Immunotherapy: In vitro and In vivo results comments

by Sophie Lerouge Nicholas Cunningham
Adoptive cell therapy ACT , where cancer-responsive T lymphocytes are administered systemically to patients, is a promising cancer immunotherapy...
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Surface charge characterization of hydrogel and silicone hydrogel contact lenses comments

by Lina Liu
Contact lens surfaces may be ionic or electrically neutral. Base on how different lenses interact with various lens care solutions and how they are affected by interaction of different proteins or lipids from tear film, FDA categorised soft contact lenses into 4 distinct groups including two ionic contact lens Group III and group IV...
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