CBS Update: Call for Nominations for BoD+ Roles
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by Patricia Comeau
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...
Reminder: Book Accommodation for CBS/CSPS/cc-CRS Meeting this June!
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by Patricia Comeau
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...
CBS/CSPS/cc-CRS 2026 Mtg - Late Breaking Abstracts
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by Patricia Comeau
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...
"Hands-on, Minds-on, and Science-up": A Concept-based Learning Laboratory with a Taste of Research Experience for an Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Course
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While the field of biomedical engineering is set to cultivate future breakthroughs in biology, medicine, and engineering, a clear strategy for empowering undergraduate students to develop skills in solving complex problems at the interfaces between these disciplines has not yet been established...
Generally, drug molecules are associated with low solubility in physiological media, rapid metabolism or undesired interaction with proteins present in the blood including enzymes and antibodies...
The rapid emergence of drug resistant pathogens is the major dilemma of this era. In fact, World Health Organization WHO has stated a dire warning that we are entering an era of post-antibiotics and hence, there is a pressing need to find novel ways to empower the drug resistant pathogens...
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...