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ERC Advanced Investigator Grants are each worth up to 2.5 million (in exceptional cases as much as 3.5 million) euros over 5 years, and are intended for established researchers in all disciplines who wish to undertake highly ambitious and innovative projects that promise to break...

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The aim of SYNERGIE, the new magazine published jointly by the German Centers of Health Research (DZG,) is to present modern medical research and provide a brief digest of the latest research findings. SYNERGIE seeks to show how interdisciplinary and networked research can help...

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Light, moderate or intense? It's not that easy to judge how hard you are working. For many people, it is especially difficult to distinguish between 'light' and 'moderate' activity. A video produced by scientists at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the...

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Air pollution is clearly underestimated as a health hazard, notwithstanding the heated discussion about diesel cars, nitrogen oxides and fine particulate matter. A team of scientists headed by Professor Jos Lelieveld of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Professor Thomas...

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Atrial fibrillation can be correctly detected using commercially available smartwatches. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the University Medicine Greifswald and researchers from the Basel University...

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Scientists at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), the University of Greifswald and the TU Dresden have developed a new way to identify different types of immune cells, without using the standard, complex process known as ‘labelling’. The method can identify...

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Using state-of-the-art gene analysis, a German research team was able to show that a complex form of congenital heart disease is caused by alterations in several genes and demonstrate how these genetic variations interact. For many years, the team investigated 12 people, from a...

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