CBS Update: Call for Nominations for BoD+ Roles
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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...
Reminder: Book Accommodation for CBS/CSPS/cc-CRS Meeting this June!
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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...
CBS/CSPS/cc-CRS 2026 Mtg - Late Breaking Abstracts
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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...
Calcium phosphate and chlorhexidine - releasing, high strength light-cured composites which promotes hydroxyapatite and antibacterial co-precipitation
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Dental composites have been used for over 50 years as restorative materials. Compared with dental amalgam, these trigger less safety concerns and provide improved aesthetics...
In the last two decades, hydrogels have been widely explored for tissue regeneration due to their tunable mechanics, cell compatibility, ease of functionalization, and similarity to soft tissues...
Alternatives to existing implantable materials ex. metals or autologous grafts for bone tissue repair and regeneration are needed to improve patient outcomes and avoid the complications caused by issues such as stress shielding and donor site morbidity 1 ...
A highly elastic and rapidly crosslinkable elastin-like polypeptide-based hydrogel for biomedical applications
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Elastic hydrogels carry the potential to serve as scaffolds for various biomedical applications. Though some elastic hydrogels are biocompatible, most of the synthetic polymer-based elastic scaffolds lack bioactive sequences to promote cell adhesion or migration, which is important for their application in tissue engineering...
Breast cancer metastasis to bone is associated with poor patient prognosis as current non-specific therapeutics are administered systemically with deleterious side effects...
