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How pathogenic gene variants lead to heart failure

Cardiomyopathy is not a uniform disease. Rather, individual genetic defects lead to heart failure in different ways, an international consortium…

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New DZHK junior research group leader follows trail of "escaped" genes

Many diseases progress differently in women and men. There are often differences in the way they develop. This also applies to cardiovascular…

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How the zebrafish repairs a broken heart

Zebrafish can regenerate heart muscle tissue after injury. Connective tissue cells play an important role in the process by temporarily entering an…

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DZHK Scientist Anselm Uebing Takes Over as Chairman of the Board of the Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects

The members of the Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects elected Professor Anselm Uebing as the new chairman of the board at the end of…

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What makes blood vessels grow?

Blood vessels must adapt their growth to the nutrients available in their surroundings so that they can keep organs adequately supplied. A team led by…

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University Medical Center Göttingen is a new partner in translational alliance

The University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) is now one of eleven partners in the TRAIN network. Biomedical research institutions from Lower Saxony…

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What to do when the heart stumbles?

In a television report on the NDR health programme Visite, Prof. Dr Rolf Wachter from Göttingen University Hospital reports on how atrial fibrillation…

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Two new Collaborative Research Centers on cardiovascular research funded by the DFG

The German Research Foundation funds two new Collaborative Research Centers on cardiovascular research led by DZHK partner institutions in Frankfurt…

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Inflammation in cardiac muscle cells in children: Are defective genes responsible?

DZHK researcher at the German Heart Center Berlin investigates disease mechanisms of myocardial inflammation in children - supported by Gerd Killian…

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Ten years of DZG: "Pacesetters in health research"

Four of six German Centres for Health Research (DZG) celebrated their tenth anniversary today with a ceremony in Berlin and around 300 guests from the…

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