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WBC2016 Legacy Travel Award Deadline Extended to March 2 0 comments

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The deadline for the WBC2016 Legacy Travel Award has been extended to March 2, 2026, to match the abstract deadline extension for the CBS CSPS CC-CRS Conference...
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Dear members and friends of the Canadian Biomaterials Society, The abstract deadline has been extended to March 2nd, 2026 for the upcoming CBS CCPS cc-CRS 2026 meeting this June in Vancouver, BC...
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Dear friends , For this years annual meeting in beautiful Vancouver, BC June 2 - 5 2026 we are happy to partner with the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences CSPS and the Canadian Chapter of the Controlled Release Society cc-CRS ...
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Call for Abstracts for CBS/CSPS/cc-CRS Conference is now open! 0 comments

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Call for Abstracts is OPEN 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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Engineering Vascularized Tissue Constructs with Sacrificial Thermoreversible Hydrogels using a Custom 3D Bioprinter and Angiogenesis-inducing Multipotent Stromal Cells (MSCs) comments

by Ross Fitzsimmons
Bioprinting offers new opportunities for overcoming the previously intractable challenge of creating complex vascular structures within engineered tissues...
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Comparative Study on Adsorbed and Grafted Fibronectin Coatings on Fluorocarbon Surfaces for Cardiovascular Applications comments

by Vanessa Montano-Machado
When a dispositive is implanted in the human body, the first interactions its surface establishes with the surrounding biological tissues and fluids will influence its clinical success...
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Surface modification of lung assist device by co-modification with antithrombin-heparin (ATH) and tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) comments

by Kyla Sask Siyuan Li
Recently, microfabrication technologies have been used for the development of blood oxygenators to treat neonates with respiratory distress and to overcome the limitations of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ECMO and mechanical ventilation1,2...
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45S5 Bioactive Glass Reactivity by Dynamic Vapour Sorption comments

by Showan N. Nazhat Shiva Naseri
The bioactivity i.e., the ability of carbonate hydroxyapatite CHA formation to promote bone bonding of 45S5 Bioglass has been studied over four decades...
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Targeting cell cycle proteins in breast cancer cells by siRNA using lipid-substituted polyethylenimine comments

by Hasan Uludag Manoj Parmar
There are significant limitations side effects to all breast cancer chemotherapy regimens, radiation and surgical treatments, which urgently warrant a search for alternative and more effective therapies...
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