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Heart tissue consists of different cell types. If the tissue is healthy, the cells "chat" extensively with their neighbors, exchanging information via receptors and ligands. In old and diseased hearts, this no longer seems to work well. A young research team from Frankfurt has...

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 aneurysm in the heart? For an active ingredient or a gene vector to do any good, it has to be delivered to the right place - hydrogels...

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 makes sense to record the risk for atrial fibrillation. If the stake for atrial fibrillation is high, they can be protected from...

Mathematician, physicist and information scientist Prof. Fabian Theis has won the 2023 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.The award is considered the most prestigious research prize in Germany and is awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG); it is endowed with 2.5 million...

An international team of scientists, including those from the University of Lübeck and the Technical University of Munich, is linking dozens of new gene loci to coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, pioneering research into the biological causes of common diseases.

Researchers now know that atherosclerosis - deposits on the inner wall of blood vessels - causes inflammatory processes in the body. These processes trigger the immune system and ultimately derail the body's defenses. Munich scientists have identified a protein that can slow down...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a collaborative research center with around 14.3 million euros to investigate mechanisms by which blood vessels control the function of organs. The deputy spokesperson is Professor Dr. Gergana Dobreva from the University Medical...

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 this year: Dr Gabriele G. Schiattarella from the DZHK partner site in Berlin is investigating the molecular mechanisms of heart...

16 scientists of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) are among the most cited researchers worldwide and thus among the most influential experts in their field of research. The list of "Highly Cited Researchers" is published every year by the analysis company...

Research group led by Heidelberg University Hospital identified enzyme that modifies motor proteins of heart muscle cells and thus influences their function / Results published in Nature Communications