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Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Thomas Iskratsch

How do cells know whether they should form heart muscle, a blood vessel or something else? Recent discoveries have shown that one factor influencing heart muscle development is that cells are affected by how rigid their environment is. But ...

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Largest trial of its kind, involving two BHF Professors, shows patients having heart surgery do not benefit from doctors waiting for them to become severely anaemic before giving a blood transfusion.

How much you can exercise is determined by messages sent between your heart and brain. Jenny Mitchell explains.

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University of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk

Several drugs to treat cancer are known to have long-term side effects on the heart. Among them are drugs that impact a series of proteins which talk to each other, called the ERK1/2 pathway. This pathway promotes cancer, but it also protec...

Consultant Cardiologist, Professor Malcolm Walker, explains how chemo can affect your heart and what you can do to protect it.

What are the different types of heart attacks

Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Centre in the US have announced the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically modified pig’s heart into a human.

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University of Edinburgh | Professor David Newby

Supervised by BHF Professor David Newby, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is working out if a drug used to treat osteoporosis can also treat aortic stenosis. Blood leaves the heart through a large artery called the aorta and flows ...