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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 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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Raman Spectroscopic and Mechanical Property Changes Caused by Ex Vivo Endocortical Fluoride Infusion of Cortical Bone comments

by Sidney Omelon
The influence of fluoride on bone material properties is a complicated phenomenon. There are many possible mechanisms that fluoride ions could have on the biological processes, bone mineral chemistry, and bone mineral collagen interface properties 1 ...
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Skin-Inspired Multifunctional Autonomic-Intrinsic Conductive Self-Healing Hydrogels with Pressure Sensitivity, Stretchability and 3D Printability comments

by mohammad Ali darabi
In current report, we synthesized a mechanically and electrically self-healing hydrogel with pressure and extension sensitive features, introducing a promising candidate for wearable sensors...
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Pharmacological preconditioning improves viability, paracrine activities and neoangiogenesis of hydrogel encapsulated mesenchymal stem cells. comments

by Sophie Lerouge
Stem cell therapy is a promising treatment for various degenerative diseases including myocardial infarction precipitated heart failure...
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Optimized Synthesis of Hydrophobized Methylcellulose Nanogels comments

by Marion Jamard
Due to their convenience, eye drops account for approximately 90 of commercially available ophthalmic formulations...
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PLA surface functionalization: a first step toward targeted bioconjugation for biomedical applications comments

by Ivan Rodríguez Durán
Polylactic acid PLA is a biodegradable aliphatic polyester, which is widely used in the pharmaceutical and biomedical sectors on account of its biocompatibility and good mechanical properties...
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