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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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W-Fe-Mn radiopaque coatings for biodegradable stents comments

by Diego Mantovani Samira Ravanbakhsh
Biodegradable metals, a new class of biomaterials, are promising in stenting applications. In the past years, Fe-Mn based alloys have raised the interest of the scientific community due to good combination of properties such as mechanical properties, biocompatibility and corrosion behavior...
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A novel reprogramming method for neural tissue regeneration comments

by Stephanie Willerth Meghan Robinson
The transcription factor Ascl1 plays a key role in neural development. Recently Ascl1 was identified as a pioneer factor capable of reprogramming other cell types of the central nervous system into neurons using viral mediated overexpression1...
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Magnetically Activated Glass Transition (Tg) Switch Nanocomposites for On-demand Drug Delivery comments

by Todd Hoare Somiraa Said
On-demand drug release has great potential in post-surgical pain control, infection treatment, hormonal therapy, and chemotherapy...
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Recombinant human proteoglycan 4 releasing in situ cross-linking hyaluronic acid hydrogels for reducing post-surgical adhesions comments

by Tannin Schmidt Graeme Prosperi-Porta
Postsurgical adhesions are a significant source of morbidity causing bowel obstruction, ischemia, infertility or ectopic pregnancies following intraabdominal surgery 1 ...
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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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