by Samantha Payne | Jun 20, 2016
This post is the second of two covering the World Biomaterials Congress. To read my previous blog about the use of biomaterials to study cell behaviour and differentiation in vitro, please click here. This post will cover the use of biomaterials for in vivo delivery...
by Samantha Payne | Apr 7, 2016
Neurodegenerative diseases of the brain, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, are a leading cause of disability in Canada, but despite the significant burden on patients, caregivers and the health-care system, we still lack a cure. An active area of research for these...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 4, 2016
Last week, I wrote about Dr. Leon Bellan’s creative solution to engineering artificial blood vessels for lab-grown organs: cotton candy! As much as I was impressed with his out-of-the-box thinking, I also really liked the excellent video produced by Vanderbilt...
by Hamideh Emrani | Jan 5, 2016
In the fourth in her series on “What drives research in the field of biomaterials?” blogger Hamideh Emrani interviews Professor Kevin E. Healy at the University of California, Berkeley. You can catch up on Hamideh’s earlier interviews here. I met Professor Kevin Healy...
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