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You can help heal hearts this Christmas by taking part in a BHF festive fundraisers. In the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the BHF needs the public’s support more than ever to enable it to continue our life saving research and provide vital support to the 7.4 million people in the UK living with heart and circulatory diseases.

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RESEARCH

King's College London | Dr Qiuping Zhang

Heart muscle cells have a criss-cross network of protein molecules, called the cytoskeleton, that keep them in the correct shape. For the heart to beat, muscle cells need to change the shape of their cytoskeleton. Dr Zhang has previously sh...

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University of Bristol | Dr Danielle Paul

For our hearts to beat and pump blood around the body, heart muscle needs to contract. Under the microscope, we can see that heart muscle is made up of two sets of filaments – thin and thick – which are made from several different proteins....

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University College London | Dr Nephtali Marina Gonzalez

Obesity is often associated with high blood pressure and childhood obesity is a significant risk factor for the development of heart disease in later life. Understanding the link between obesity and heart disease is of vital importance if w...

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King's College London | Dr Martin Bishop

Defibrillation, where strong electrical shocks are applied to the heart, is the only effective therapy against life-threatening heartbeat irregularities (arrhythmias). Despite its success, strong electrical shocks can cause pain, trauma and...

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University of Leicester | Professor G Andre Ng

Ventricular arrhythmias can lead to sudden cardiac death. There is currently no method of preventing sudden cardiac death, and there is a need to understand the underlying electrical and nervous disruption that causes the abnormal rhythm. T...