http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Two wrongs don't make a right, they say, but here's how one tangle can straighten out another. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-tangle-talents-untangles-neurons.html Medical research Mon, 06 May 2013 05:53:02 EST news287038373 (Medical Xpress)—A painstaking effort to create a biocompatible patch to heal infant hearts is paying off at Rice University and Texas Children's Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-biocompatible-patch-infants-birth-defects.html Medical research Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:48:19 EST news274531680 In research published in the journal Acta Biomaterialia, researchers from the University of Sheffield describe a new method for producing membranes to help in the grafting of stem cells onto the eye, mimicking structural features of the eye itself. The technology has been designed to treat damage to the cornea, the transparent layer on the front of the eye, which is one of the major causes of blindness in the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-technique-stem-cell-therapy-eyes.html Medical research Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:17:39 EST news273925020 Some of the body's own genetic material, known as small interfering RNA (siRNA), can be packaged then unleashed as a precise and persistent technology to guide cell behavior, researchers at Case Western Reserve University report in the current issue of the journal, Acta Biomaterialia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-precise-persistent-cell-sabotage-sirna.html Medical research Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:46:35 EST news265279567