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Many diseases progress differently in women and men. There are often differences in the way they develop. This also applies to cardiovascular diseases. The reason for this has not yet been clarified. Dr. Daniel Andergassen suspects that part of the answer lies in the sex...

Zebrafish can regenerate heart muscle tissue after injury. Connective tissue cells play an important role in the process by temporarily entering an activated cell state. This is reported by a research team led by the two DZHK scientists Jan Philipp Junker and Daniela Panáková...

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 June. Uebing heads the Department of Congenital Heart Defects and Pediatric Cardiology at Kiel University (CAU) and is now...