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New hospital funding in Birmingham to detect deadly heart condition
More people in the West Midlands will be screened for a deadly inherited heart condition called HCM thanks to new funding from the Miles Frost Fund and the BHF.
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How supporter cells instruct heart muscle cells to behave normallyImperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano
There are two types of cell in the heart, cells that contract to make it beat (myocytes) and cells that don't contract, but provide support for the myocytes (fibroblasts). These researchers at Imperial College London propose that fibroblast...
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A genetic cure for killer heart muscle diseases
A global team are developing a ground-breaking genetic cure for inherited heart muscle diseases, thanks to our single biggest research grant ever.
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Can we prevent more damage to heart muscle after a heart attack?Newcastle University | Professor Ioakim Spyridopoulos
Supervised by Professor Ioakim Spyridopoulos, a PhD student is looking for ways to prevent further heart muscle damage after a heart attack. Doctors carry out a procedure called coronary angioplasty to open up blocked or narrowed arteries ...
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The importance of scaffolding proteins for heart cell functionKing's College London | Professor Franca Fraternali
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle. It can run in families and can affect more than one member of a family. The disease is caused by faulty genes carried in a person’s DNA. Dr Franca Fraternali and her colleagues at King’s ...
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Studying thickening at the tip of the heart in athletes and non-athletesUniversity College London | Professor James Moon
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a form of heart muscle disease that can be caused by faults in certain genes. It causes the heart muscle wall to thicken abnormally and people with these changes are at risk of dying suddenly from danger...
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A new imaging method to detect heart muscle changes after a heart attackImperial College London | Professor David Firmin
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful, safe research and clinical tool, with more than 2.3 million scans performed each year in the NHS. The BHF has awarded a grant to Professor David Firmin to study a new MRI method called diffusi...
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UK's first baby heart transplant survivor's surprise tribute to the women who saved her life
Kaylee Davidson-Olley, 32, from Newcastle was the first baby in the UK to have a successful heart transplant. To celebrate World Heart Day on Sunday (29th September 2019), she paid tribute to the two women who saved her life over 30 years ago by having their names engraved forever on our glorious Heart of Steel.
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The inheritance of hope: curing genetic heart disease now within grasp
Max Jarmey, 27, took part in our latest Live & Ticking event alongside his cardiologist, BHF Professor Hugh Watkins.
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Role of Rho kinase in heart development and diseaseNewcastle University | Dr Helen Phillips
Abnormalities in the structure and function of the heart cause congenital heart disease (when babies are born with a heart defect) and also cause heart disease in the adult. The muscle cells of the heart change shape during development in t...