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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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Abstract Deadline Extended for CBS/CSPS/CC-CRS Conference 0 comments
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 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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Evaluation of the biocompatibility of Magnesium Alloys by Direct and Indirect Methods comments
Magnesium alloys have the highest strength weight ratio of all known structural metals. They are a third lighter than aluminum and a quarter the density of steel...
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Chitosan Thermogels for Local T Lymphocyte Delivery in Cancer Immunotherapy comments
Systemic adoptive T lymphocyte transfer is an emerging cancer immunotherapy showing tremendous promise in clinical studies, and its success lies in the ability of the antigen-experienced cytotoxic T lymphocytes cTL to access and to persist in the tumour microenvironment 1 ...
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Laser-Generated Silica Nanofibers Embedded with Electrospun Gold Nanoparticles: A Novel Platform for Biocompatible Sensing Devices comments
Increasing the overall sensitivity of sensing materials is a key feature in their application. As technology advances, not only is customizing the electrical conductivity of the material of importance, but many applications also require biocompatibility...
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Viability enhancement of hydrogel encapsulated mesenchymal stem cells by a short pharmacological treatment. comments
Cell therapy is increasingly used to treat various diseases such myocardial infarction. This therapeutic approach is limited however by the poor retention and diminished survival of transplanted cells in the ischemic, inflammatory and oxidative infarct microenvironment...
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A 3-D Multicellular Tumor Spheroid on Layer-by-layer Coated Single Cancer Cell to Study Epithelial-to-mesenchymal Transitions comments
In tumor progression, the hypoxia-mediated epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition EMT works as an important survival pathway, where epithelial cells lose their polarized properties and acquire mesenchymal characteristics...
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