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University of Oxford | Dr Gillian Douglas

Oxford researchers are uncovering how a newly-discovered gene relates to heart disease. Studies of the human genome have spotlighted a new gene that raises the risk of coronary heart disease. The gene has been named JCAD and, with BHF fu...

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University of Bristol | Professor Emma Raven

Heme is a small molecule that contains iron in the middle of it. Many different proteins in our bodies have heme bound to them - including haemoglobin, the molecule that carries oxygen in the blood. But heme also has other roles in our cell...

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University of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu

Diabetes is a serious and common condition that occurs when there is too much sugar (glucose) in the blood because the body can’t use it or store it properly. Diabetes can damage the arteries and veins that supply blood to our legs. This ca...

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King's College London | Professor Ajay Shah

By investing in research the BHF are supporting scientists to make potentially life-saving discoveries, which could help us beat the heartbreak caused by heart and circulatory diseases across the world. But sometimes it takes more than a on...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Kenneth Smith

Antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a devastating autoimmune disease, where a person’s own immune cells attack the body and cause damage. The resulting blood vessel inflammation can lead to a blood clot in the lungs, kidney failure, or ...

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University of Manchester | Dr Ashraf Kitmitto

Mitochondria are the power houses of cells - they provide energy for all of the cell’s activities. Obesity disrupts the function of the mitochondria, and this is thought to contribute to the higher risk of diabetes and heart failure in peop...

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Cardiff University | Dr Nia Thomas

Dr Nia Lowri Thomas and her team at Cardiff University are studying the processes that control how heart muscle cells contract during each heartbeat and what goes wrong in abnormal heart rhythms. For heart muscle cells to contract, calci...