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by Samira Ravanbakhsh
Trends in Bioabsorbable Metals 2020 Where Science meets Technology and Clinics August 24 and 25, 2020 A Virtual Symposium Online, informative, affordable http www...
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by Todd Hoare
Hello, The Canadian Society of Biomaterials and the Student Chapters of Quebec and Montreal are pleased to invite you to Weekly Conference on Biomaterials in Pharmaceutics ...
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by Zhenwei Ma
Hi We re organizing a zoom-inar featuring four Canadian professors working at the frontline of battling COVID-19 Please find the details below The event will take place on May 22nd from 2 30-4 30 pm EDT via Zoom https bit...
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Circumventing the Blood-Brain Barrier: Injectable hyaluronan-based hydrogel to deliver Cyclosporin A to promote tissue repair in stroke-injured rat brain comments

by Molly Shoichet Jessica Ngai
Drug delivery to the brain is severely impeded by the blood brain barrier BBB , preventing the use of most potential regenerative agents for diseases such as stroke...
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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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Injectable Macroporous Hydrogels using Perfluorcarbon Emulsions as Porogens comments

by Todd Hoare Samaneh Toufanian
Injectable hydrogels that can be delivered using needles offer particular advantages in biomedical applications given that these hydrogels do not require invasive surgical implantation, thereby reducing recovery time for patients, reducing costs, and in many cases enabling direct encapsulation, rather than post-encapsulation, of cells during the gel formation process 1 ...
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Application and Characterization of a Human Corneal in vitro Model for Testing Drug delivery Ophthalmic Materials comments

by Maud Gorbet Shahabedin Eslami
The cornea acts as a transparent shield protecting the eye from germs, dust or pathogens and control the diffusion of external substances such as oxygen or drugs into intraocular tissues...
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Impact of nucleic acid backbone modifications on the morphology of lipid nanoparticles comments

by Kulkarni Jayesh Kevin An
Lipid nanoparticles LNPs containing short infering RNA siRNA and messenger RNA mRNA have been clinically shown to be able to treat the root cause of genetic diseases and confer protection against infection as with Onpattro and the recent COVID-19 vaccines, respectively...
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