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The field of neural biomaterials has evolved considerably over the past 25 years as new techniques and technologies have been developed for treating the diseases and disorders of both the spinal cord ...

Eyelid dermatitis (ED) is an interdisciplinary medical challenge affecting thousands of patients worldwide. ED management can be difficult in view of …

Cardiomyocyte hypocontractility underlies inherited dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Yet, whether fibroblasts modify DCM phenotypes remains unclear despite their regulation of fibrosis, which strongly pr...

How UBC researchers created a complex model that could help treat chronic diseases.

Cell-derived extracellular vesicles offer promise as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Extracellular vesicles have been produced from various cell sources, with and without add...

The Stem Cell Network (SCN) is seeking to understand how recent U.S. government research funding cuts, policy changes, and tariffs are impacting research amongst its national community. As such, we ar...

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Using 3D bioprinting and other cutting-edge technologies, a team of UBC researchers led by Dr. Ryan Flannigan is bringing new hope to men with a severe form of infertility

With the Trump administration gutting research funding, imperiling science-related jobs, and stalling the grant-approval process for clinical studies and research centers, many U.S. scientists are con...

Bioprinting incorporates printable biomaterials into 3D printing to create intricate tissues that maintain a defined 3D structure while supporting the surviv...

NIH-funded breakthrough could enable targeted therapies for many neurological disorders.

Investigation of novel carboxymethyl chitosan-based bioinks for 3D bioprinting of neural tissues, Juraski, Amanda C, da Silva, Victor A, Sharma, Ruchi, Azzoni, Adriano R, Willerth, Stephanie M

“Uh? Just a box!” Stealth polymer nanofibers show great promise for therapeutic delivery; however, they remain hard to functionalise. In their Research Article (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202500108), S. T. G....

While university officials said they’ve still not received official word of such action, they acknowledged receiving about 100 stop-work orders from the federal government on roughly 100 fede…

Brain organoids are 3D tissue models of the human brain that are derived from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). They have enabled studies that were previously stymied by the inaccessibility of human brai...