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University of Glasgow | Dr William Fuller

When the heart beats, it’s essential that all heart muscle cells contract at the same time. To achieve this, tiny pores in the heart cells open simultaneously to allow calcium molecules to pass through, which in turn signal to the heart cel...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Martin Bennett

BHF Professor Martin Bennett and colleagues at the University of Cambridge are working out if a protein called SIRT6 could be a target for new drugs to treat atherosclerosis, a condition where fatty materials build-up inside arteries. A he...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Susan E Ozanne

Heart and circulatory disease is one of the UK’s biggest killers. Research to find new ways to prevent it at an early stage could make a huge difference to society. Keeping healthy during pregnancy is vital to provide a healthy environment ...

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Imperial College London | Dr Stephen Wort

People with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) have high blood pressure in their lungs. This causes a thickening of the lung’s blood vessel walls, which increases resistance to the blood flow but also puts a strain on the right side of t...

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Manchester Metropolitan University | Dr Stephen White

The build-up of fatty deposits in arteries is much more likely to occur in the bends and branches of arteries, where blood flow is disrupted. Changes in flow can cause the cells that line the blood vessel wall (endothelial cells) to detach....