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Save the Date for CBS2026! June 2–5, 2026 0 comments

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Overview The Canadian Biomaterials Society CBS , the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences CSPS , and the Controlled Release Society cc-CRS are joining forces to host a landmark joint conference at UBC Vancouver...
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CBS Eastern Canada Research Day - Abstracts due Sept 15th 0 comments

by Patricia Comeau
Dear CBS Members Colleagues, We are excited to share that four of our Eastern Canada student chapters have organized a 2025 Canadian Biomaterials Society Eastern Canada Student Research Day ...
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CBS Board of Directors Elections 2025 and CBS2027 Update 0 comments

by Lindsay Fitzpatrick
Dear CBS Member, I have a two important news items to communicate 1. CBS Board Member Elections It is now time to cast your votes for open positions on the CBS Board of Directors...
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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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Drug-eluting biodegradable porous iron for bone scaffolds comments

by Hendra Hermawan
Bone metastases have been treated by several methods including surgery and chemotherapy. One treatment by surgery involves removal of cancerous bone and implantation of a scaffold or graft to fill the void and to allow new bone formation...
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Plasma approaches for controlling the release of silver ions from silver-based antibacterial nanocoatings comments

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Recently, the prevention of hospital-acquired infections HAIs has increased to a great extent, due to an augmented awareness on the importance to reduce the spread of bacteria on everyday surfaces located, e...
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Invited Talk: Targeting the mas-related G protein-coupled receptor X2 (MrgprX2) on human mast cells to modulate allergic inflammation comments

by Marianna Kulka
Mast cells MC are important sentinels of the immune system in all vertebrates. They are effectors in allergy and have important roles in disease by secreting histamine, inflammatory and immunomodulatory substances...
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Liposomal blood lactate assay: a study in fresh capillary blood from human volunteers comments

by Simon Matoori
Clinical practice guidelines for sepsis recommend serum lactate for disease staging, prognosis, and assessment of treatment response 1 ...
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