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University of Bristol | Dr Rebecca Richardson

Unlike us, zebrafish can heal damage to their heart remarkably well. Although heart injury in the zebrafish can result in a scar, this later disappears and it is replaced by new, functional heart tissue. In humans, white blood cells, which ...

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King's College London | Dr Yin Biao Sun

Each heart beat is triggered by a pulse of calcium in a heart muscle cell, and is driven at the molecular level by myosin and actin filaments sliding past each other and generating the force for contraction. Calcium triggers contraction by ...

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University of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu

Professor Paolo Madeddu is working out ways to use stem cell-based tissue engineering to help babies born with congenital heart disease. In this project, he will develop a new a new prosthetic graft called a ‘pericyte-engineered’ graft ...

TV presenter Emma Willis has spoken out about the heavy toll of being diagnosed with a heart condition as she unveiled a new British Heart Foundation campaign.

Diabetes can lead to blood vessel damage and raise your risk of heart disease, blindness and limb amputation. We’ve been funding research to find ways to grow or repair blood vessels damaged by diabetes.

London to Brighton Bike Ride 2023 raises £1.4 million for heart research