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Royal Veterinary College, University of London | Professor Gurtej K Dhoot

Professor Gurtej Dhoot is working out how two enzymes called Sulf1 and Sulf2 are involved in forming new blood vessels to repair damaged heart muscle. The heart pumps blood containing oxygen and nutrients around the body but also needs i...

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University of Leeds | Dr Neil Turner

Leeds researchers are uncovering how cardiac fibroblast cells, the cells that help form the structural scaffold of the heart, alter the size and shape of the heart during disease. The heart is made up of several different types of cells. ...

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University College London | Professor Dr Maria Balda

The insides of blood vessels are made up of a thin sheet of cells, called endothelial cells, which form a barrier between the passing blood and the vessel wall. Endothelial cells have many functions, from responding to stimuli within the bl...

An injectable cure for inherited heart muscle conditions that can kill young people in the prime of their lives could be available within a few years, after an international team of researchers were announced as the winners of our Big Beat Challenge.

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University College London | Professor Eric Brunner

In 1985 a major research study was launched, with the ambition of investigating the causes of social inequalities in health. The study, called Whitehall II, recruited 10,308 London civil servants aged 35- 55 and has followed them up with re...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Antonio Vidal Puig

The release of fat from body fat tissue into the bloodstream is tightly regulated. However, in people who are overweight this regulation is disrupted and too much fat can be released into the blood and other tissues. When this happens, the ...

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St George's, University of London | Professor Guy Whitley

The placenta acts as a baby’s lungs and stomach while in the womb, supplying food and oxygen from the mother’s blood. Early in pregnancy the blood vessels to the womb change in structure and increase in size to supply enough blood to the gr...

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Newcastle University | Professor Helen M Arthur

Many thousands of heart attack survivors go on to develop heart failure, a condition which has a detrimental effect on their quality of life. Over recent decades scientists have carried out clinical trials to try to repair damaged hearts us...