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How blood vessel cells change their shape and orientationUniversity of Bristol | Professor Harry Mellor
After a heart attack or stroke, the body needs to make new blood vessels to replenish the oxygen supply to tissues. To form new blood vessels, cells called endothelial cells undergo profound changes in shape and organise themselves into a t...
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Why do fatty plaques develop unevenly throughout arteries?Imperial College London | Professor Peter Weinberg
Professor Peter Weinberg and his colleagues at Imperial College London are looking into why atherosclerosis - when arteries become furred up with fatty plaques and narrow – develops unevenly in blood vessels. Scientists believe that dif...
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Shape changing platelet researchUniversity of Hull | Dr Simon Calaminus
Supervised by Dr Simon Calaminus, this PhD student is studying what controls platelets – small cells in the blood that clump together at sites of injury to form a plug to prevent further blood loss. Platelets are not normally activated ...
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Finding a weakness in how bacteria grow on medical devices, to prevent infectionUniversity of York | Dr Michael Plevin
Advances in research and technology have led to the development of a wide range of medical devices used to treat heart disease. Devices like pacemakers, prosthetic heart valves and stents may be placed inside patients’ bodies for year...
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Building 3-D blood vessels to study blood clottingKeele University | Professor Ying Yang
In this PhD studentship the researchers will grow human blood vessels in the laboratory from cells taken from human donors. They propose that the 3-D engineered blood vessels can be used to study the process of blood clotting. Platelets are...
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Studying the steps and signals required for the growth of new blood vesselsImperial College London | Dr Graeme Birdsey
The growth of new blood vessels is called angiogenesis. Research efforts are going on around the world to understand how we can stop or promote angiogenesis for human health. For example, stopping angiogenesis is important in cancer treatme...
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Investigating why blood clots are more common in pregnant women who are overweight.University of Glasgow | Dr Catherine Bagot
Blood clots in veins, while rare, are one of the main causes of death in pregnant women. Overweight pregnant women are at a greater risk of blood clots than pregnant women of a healthy weight, but the reasons why are not understood. Hig...
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AI detects life-threatening blood vessel inflammation from Covid-19 variants
New artificial intelligence technology to scan for heightened blood vessel inflammation can calculate a person’s risk of death from Covid-19 and Covid-19 variants. The technology could be used to tailor their treatment and give them the best chance of recovery according to new research we've funded and presented today at the British Cardiovascular Society conference.
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Our Chief Executive on equality, race and the BHF
Our Chief Executive, Dr Charmaine Griffiths, discusses what we at the BHF are doing to become a more diverse and inclusive charity,
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High protein breakfast ideas
There's more protein than you might think in our breakfast choices. BHF dietician Victoria Taylor takes a closer look.