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University of Oxford | Professor Roger Patient

Hundreds of thousands of people are living with heart failure, but there is no cure. This research in zebrafish may reveal ways to regenerate or repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack or in heart failure, which could ultimately ma...

Learn more about driving while living with a heart condition, specifically how quickly you can get back to driving, whether you need to let the DVLA know about your heart condition, whether you can drive a large goods vehicle, and whether you need to let your car insurance company know.

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Imperial College London | Dr Eva Rog Zielinska

The main pumping chambers of the heart, the ventricles, are made up of billions of muscle cells. For our hearts to pump, electrical signals must spread rapidly from the pacemaker within the heart to ‘activate’ the cells in the ventricles to...

What is the link between our body's daily cycles and our heart health? Dr Phoebe Kitscha explores the exciting research inspired by zebrafish.

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Imperial College London | Dr Alfonso De Simone

Calcium uptake in part of the heart muscle cell called the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is crucial for the heart to relax, and is controlled by a protein called SERCA. In dilated cardiomyopathy, a cause of heart failure, SERCA either does n...

Today the Government has published plans to provide £20 million to support early career researchers funded by medical research charities.

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We’re pleased to share the positive results of our latest Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap Report for 2024.

Discover the easy tips to make a cheese board that's both flavourful and good for your heart.

An immune cell has been shown, for the first time, to be involved in creating the scar that repairs the heart after damage.