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Dear CBS Members and Friends. As our annual general meeting AGM approaches we are actively seeking nominations for available spots on the Board of Directors for the CBS, the student representative, and both secretary and treasurer roles...
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Dear CBS Friends and Members, Please find the Spring 2026 newsletter attached here. Regards, Patricia Comeau, CBS Secretary
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Dear CBS Members and Friends, We have been asked to share the following message on behalf of the organizing committee for our upcoming CBS CSPS cc-CRS meeting in Vancouver, BC...
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Dear Canadian Biomaterials Society Members Friends, A call for late-breaking abstracts has now been released for our upcoming CBS CSPS cc-CRS 2026 meeting this June in sunny Vancouver, BC...
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Delivery of Protein-Based Therapies Targeting the Regeneration and Repair of Cardiac Tissues comments

by Paul J Santerre Shirley Chung
Leading edge regenerative therapies targeting heart failure have utilized the delivery of cardiac progenitor cells to improve heart function...
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Polymeric Delivery of siRNA against Integrin-β1 (CD29) to Reduce Attachment and Migration of Breast Cancer Cells comments

by Hasan Uludag Daniel Nisakar Meenakshi Sundaram
Cell surface integrins play important roles in the survival, proliferation, migration and invasion of cancer cells, and is a viable target for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer1...
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In vitro development of a tissue-engineered cutaneous wound healing model made of diabetic patient cells comments

by Mathias Lemarchand
Diabetic patients suffer from frequent formation of sores on the foot, called diabetic ulcers DU , that are struggling to heal and subject to frequent infections that may require amputation of the lower legs...
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Fabrication and Characterization of Shear Thinning Biomaterial for Intra-tumoral Delivery of Doxorubicin comments

by Sadaf Samimi Gharaie
Doxorubicin is widespread and influential apoptosis-inducing drug in cancer chemotherapy which interdicts DNA replication and treats different types of cancers including, benign, potentially-malignant, glioblastoma malignant tumours 1 2 3 ...
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Single-step loading of cells into nanofibrous hydrogel scaffolds via reactive electrospinning comments

by Todd Hoare Fei XU
Hydrogels have attracted significant interest in the context of tissue engineering due to their generally high cell compatibility and similar physical properties to native soft tissues...
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