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Cardiac repair in guinea pigs with human engineered heart tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells, Science Translational Medicine (2016),…

Myocardial patches generated in the lab can be grafted on to damaged guinea pig hearts to improve heart function. That is what a team of researchers…

The 1st DZHK Conference on Translational Medicine takes place on January 11-12, 2017 in Berlin.

Axial tubule junctions control rapid calcium signaling in atria, Clin Invest. (2016) doi:10.1172/JCI88241, DZHK authors: Brandenburg, Wagner, Hebisch,…

A molecule that only occurs on vessel walls of arteries causing inflammations there could be the foundation for a novel treatment of atherosclerosis.…

Myocardial infarction differs in men and women. Women fall ill later, but they die from it more often. Overall, men are affected more often. These and…

Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing controls cathepsin S expression in atherosclerosis by enabling HuR-mediated post-transcriptional regulation, Nature…

Iron deficiency is common in patients suffering from heart failure. A clinical study of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), the…

Cell models from stem cells serve an ever-increasing role in research of cardiac dysfunction. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)…

Distinct genetic architectures for syndromic and nonsyndromic congenital heart defects identified by exome sequencing, Nature Genetics, 2016, DZHK…