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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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Mineralization of polyplexes as a tool to increase robustness and transfection efficiency. comments

by Hasan Uludag Teo Dick
Recently, it has been proposed that viruses benefit from the ability to self-mineralize under natural supersaturated conditions to increase robustness as an evolutionary advantage 1 ...
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Bioactive Sol-Gel Derived Borate Glasses comments

by William Lepry
Bioactive glasses have long been studied as bone replacement materials. Owing to their lower chemical durability, bioactive borate glasses degrade more rapidly and consequently have a quicker conversion rate to bone-like mineral hydroxy-carbonated apatite, HCA when compared to the traditional silicate bioactive glasses 1 ...
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Zinc loaded calcium sulphate enhances rhBMP-2 induced bone formation comments

by Sean Peel Michael Spatafora
Recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein 2 BMP bioimplants are used clinically to promote spinal fusion, fracture non-union and bone defect repair...
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Electrospun fiber reinforced conductive polypyrrole membrane for biomedical and energy storage applications comments

by Ze Zhang Shujun Cui
Polypyrrole PPy has shown considerable potential in biomedicine and energy storage owing to its inherent electrical conductivity, easy synthesis, potential of chemical modification, and biocompatibility 1,2 ...
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Targeted X-ray Computed Tomography Imaging of Tumours Using Bismuth Nanoparticles comments

by Joseph Kinsella
Like many illnesses the early that cancer can be detected the more likely that there can be a positive outcome...
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