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I'll do it for my donor
Kevin Mashford is taking on the London to Brighton ride, a year after a heart transplant.
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Using artificial intelligence to predict heart failure riskImperial College London | Dr Declan O'Regan
Dr Declan O’Regan and his colleagues at Imperial College London are using artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret heart scans and tests. They want to find out if AI can accurately predict what will happen to people with heart failure, so ...
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Omaze donates an astonishing £4.6 million pounds to BHF through huge House Prize Draw
Our third partnership with Omaze has resulted in a multi-million-pound donation for us, whilst also giving a bar manager from Reading a life changing prize of a spectacular country manor near Bath.
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Targeting heart muscle motors to treat heart failureKing's College London | Dr Thomas Kampourakis
In the search for new heart failure treatments, scientists have been studying the tiny muscle motors of heart cells that cause them to relax and contract. These motors are made up of two types of miniscule filaments – thick and thin – that ...
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How much protein do I need to gain muscle?
If protein is needed for building and repairing muscle, do you need to eat extra to gain more muscle quicker? Senior Dietitian, Victoria Taylor, explains.
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A new high-tech heart scan can improve treatments for people with heart diseasesImperial College London | Professor Dudley Pennell
In healthy hearts, the muscle cells are long and thin, and are tightly packed with their neighbours in an ordered pattern. This means that water molecules can travel more easily along the cells than across them. Professor Pennell and his te...
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Encouraging stem cells to turn into heart cellsUniversity of Aberdeen | Professor Stefan Hoppler
Professors Stefan Hoppler and Kevin Docherty are looking at how the heart and circulatory system develop in embryos. Understanding how this tissue develops in the early stages will help scientists to recreate heart cell development in the l...
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Blood pressure treatment breakthrough
High blood pressure can be caused by a tiny organ that senses oxygen levels in the blood, according to new research at the University of Bristol which we funded with your donations.
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Overcoming the hurdles to move new cell treatments towards the clinic for regenerative medicineUniversity of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu
Supervised by Professor Paolo Madeddu, the PhD student working on this project wants to overcome a serious hurdle that is stalling the development of new cell treatments. Scientists looking for new treatments to repair damaged heart tissu...
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Studying human kidneys to understand the genes behind high blood pressureUniversity of Manchester | Professor Maciej Tomaszewski
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a major and very common risk factor for heart disease. Better ways to identify and treat those at high risk of developing hypertension are urgently needed. Studies of the human genome have uncovered ...