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When heart cells no longer "listen"

Heart tissue consists of different cell types. If the tissue is healthy, the cells "chat" extensively with their neighbors, exchanging information via…

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How the active ingredient gets to the right place: researchers use materials from the sea

How does the medical agent get to the inflamed articular cartilage? And how can gene therapeutics be targeted to the vascular wall to prevent an…

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Risk score for atrial fibrillation may protect patients from recurrent stroke

How can patients who have already suffered a stroke be protected from having another stroke? At least for a particular group of stroke patients, it…

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Fabian Theis wins Leibniz Prize 2023

Mathematician, physicist and information scientist Prof. Fabian Theis has won the 2023 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.The award is considered the…

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Researchers find more genes that cause heart disease

An international team of scientists, including those from the University of Lübeck and the Technical University of Munich, is linking dozens of new…

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Slowing down atherosclerosis through less inflammation: protein could protect against deposits

Researchers now know that atherosclerosis - deposits on the inner wall of blood vessels - causes inflammatory processes in the body. These processes…

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Vascular Biology Collaborative Research Center enters second funding period

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a collaborative research center with around 14.3 million euros to investigate mechanisms by which…

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Two ERC Starting Grants awarded to DZHK scientists from Berlin and Munich

With this funding, the EU supports scientists at an early stage of their career. Two of a total of 408 grants have been awarded to DZHK scientists…

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16 DZHK researchers are "Highly Cited Researchers" 2022

16 scientists of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) are among the most cited researchers worldwide and thus among the most…

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If the heart weakens, the molecular motors are revved up

Research group led by Heidelberg University Hospital identified enzyme that modifies motor proteins of heart muscle cells and thus influences their…

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