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Induced pluripotent stem cells, iPSC for short, are a promising way to overcome the lack of human donor organs. Like embryonic stem cells, iPSC are able to transform into any body cell. Professor Dr. Sonja Schrepfer, scientist at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research...

Scientists at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) have started a study to find out whether a monoclonal antibody restoring vascular integrity is safe and has positive effects on organ functions of patients with cardiogenic shock. The multicenter trial is...

The human heart appears to be pure physics: valves open and close, blood flows through the heart’s chambers, electrical impulses regulate the heartbeat. But a German-British research team is looking at it through a different perspective. It wants to break the heart down into its...

European heart researchers want to collaboratively solve the most pressing challenges in cardiovascular medicine. Therefore, as part of a cooperation program, the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) are supporting two...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Scientists from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) have found that the use of the Impella heart pump does not reduce the number of deaths in people with cardiogenic shock after a heart attack. This is the result...

New German research shows that beating human heart muscle can be grown in a laboratory from donated skin cells. The study, published in Stem Cell Reports and part-funded by the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), could lead to personalised treatments for heart...