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The world's only clinical trial to implant artificial heart tissue in patients with heart failure to permanently strengthen the heart muscle has…

Heart failure is one of the leading causes of death. Approximately one million people with heart failure also suffer from atrial fibrillation, a heart…

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women and men worldwide. However, there are numerous differences between the hearts of the two…

It is a unique process in German health research: 20 experts and patients have worked together on a roadmap to systematically expand active patient…

A leaking mitral valve can be repaired either surgically or using a catheter-based approach. Mitral valve prolapse, in which part of the valve…

This is what ideal medicine would look like: Doctors could specifically alter molecular processes in diseased cells in the body and thus causally cure…

High blood pressure is the most common cause of stroke and heart attacks. Other organs, such as the kidneys or eyes can also suffer long-term damage…

DZHK scientists in Mainz have confirmed this assumption in both mice and humans. If humans and animals were exposed to noise pollution in the past, a…

A team of researchers from the German Institute for Nutritional Research (DIfE) has shown in an 8-week pilot study that a diet rich in omega-3 fatty…

Evolutionarily young miniproteins are unique in humans, and researchers have recently discovered thousands of them. Writing in Molecular Cell, Norbert…