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Less animal testing through heart tissue from the laboratory

The safety of new drugs cannot be predicted without the use of animal testing, yet. Researchers at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) in collaboration with colleagues from Great Britain and the Netherlands want to investigate whether artificial heart tissue can...

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Nanoscopy for the heart – DZHK-researcher Stefan Hell receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Stefan Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 for the invention of ultra-high resolution fluorescence microscopy. His method allows researchers to look into the molecular interior of cells and to...

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20 DZHK-Forscher unter den Top 50 der meist zitierten Wissenschaftler der Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung

Basierend auf der Datenbank des Web of Science hat das Laborjournal (10/2014) für die Jahre 2008-2012 eine Publikationsanalyse zur Kategorie „Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems“ durchgeführt. Das Ergebnis ist erfreulich: Insgesamt gehören im besagten Zeitraum 17 DZHK-PI und drei...

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