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Understanding the genes controlling heart development and repairUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Hastie
Professor Nicholas Hastie is studying cells in the epicardium, the outside layer of the heart, which plays a crucial role during heart development in the embryo and in repairing the adult heart. A gene called Wilms’ tumour 1, or Wt1, is i...
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Ultra-processed foods: how bad are they for your health?
Examples of ultra-processed foods include ham and sausages, mass-produced bread, cereals, and instant soups. Learn more about these foods here.
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Accelerator award at Queen Mary, University LondonQueen Mary, University of London | Professor Federica Marelli Berg
BHF-funded research is behind many of the advances that are helping people with heart and circulatory diseases to live longer, better lives. By investing in research we are supporting scientists to make potentially life-saving discoveries, ...
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Accelerator award at University College LondonUniversity College London | Professor Dr Aroon D Hingorani
BHF-funded research is behind many of the advances that are helping people with heart and circulatory diseases to live longer, better lives. By investing in research we are supporting scientists to make potentially life-saving discoveries, ...
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Can a ‘virtual’ blood pressure test reveal how narrow the heart’s arteries are?University of Sheffield | Professor Julian Gunn
Coronary artery disease is the build-up of fatty plaques in the vessels supplying blood to the heart. One way to measure the severity of coronary artery disease is to pass a tiny ‘pressure wire’ into the blood vessels of the heart to measur...
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A new model for aneurysm research that reduces the need for animalsUniversity of Bristol | Dr Jason L Johnson
Dr Jason Johnson is supervising a PhD student who will develop a new model to study aortic aneurysm, when the wall of the main blood vessel leaving the heart, the aorta, swells and bulges like a balloon. Dr Johnson wants to develop a resear...
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Chemical messengers in heart failure and hypertrophyUniversity of Oxford | Professor Manuela Zaccolo
Cardiac hypertrophy is when cells in the heart grow too large and cannot pull together efficiently to produce the heartbeat; this can lead to heart failure. One important change that can happen during heart failure is disruption to a proces...
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Studying what causes angina after exerciseKing's College London | Professor Simon Redwood
Supervised by Professor Simon Redwood, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is studying angina, chest pain that occurs when the blood supply to the heart muscle is restricted. Coronary heart disease – when the arteries supplying the h...