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Learn about what causes inherited heart muscle diseases and how CureHeart plan to stop them.

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University of Oxford | Professor Craig Lygate

Homoarginine (HA) and creatine are substances produced by the AGAT enzyme. Too little of either substance impairs heart function, and it’s thought that they may act together in the progression of heart failure. Low levels of HA are known t...

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University of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu

Professor Paolo Madeddu is working out ways to use stem cell-based tissue engineering to help babies born with congenital heart disease. In this project, he will develop a new a new prosthetic graft called a ‘pericyte-engineered’ graft ...

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University College London | Dr Vishwanie Budhram-Mahadeo

Heart defects are the main causes of stillbirths or deaths in newborn babies. However, the causes of such defects are not fully understood. Our genes act like instructions for the development of the heart, but molecular signals are requir...

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University of Glasgow | Dr Niall MacQuaide

The release of calcium inside heart muscle cells is important for a normal heart beat, and abnormal calcium release can lead to heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias). In this Intermediate Basic Science Fellowship, Dr Neil MacQuaide from t...

Research supported by BHF shows that people can find out if they are having a heart attack far faster using innovative tests

Are you worried about the effect of psoriatic arthritis on your heart? Professor Ian McInnes, Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow and an expert on inflammatory arthritis, answers your concerns.

Scientists have lessened symptoms of heart failure by reinstating the body’s natural heart rhythm using brain circuits made in silicon, thanks to research part-funded by us.

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University of Glasgow | Dr Jonathan Taylor

As well as its early heart development being similar to mammals, the zebrafish embryo is transparent, which makes it ideal to study how the heart first starts to grow and beat. But the tiny zebrafish heart beats 150 times per minute, which ...

Rachel Boothroyd was working as a successful lawyer in the city when she felt something was wrong with her body. "I thought heart disease was a risk I could manage – I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I watch what I eat. I thought I could stay on top of it, but heart disease came into my life as it does for so many people. It’s one of the biggest killers in the UK."