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Myocardial patches generated in the lab can be grafted on to damaged guinea pig hearts to improve heart function. That is what a team of researchers from Germany, Norway, Scotland and the USA found out and reported now in Science Translational Medicine.

The 1st DZHK Conference on Translational Medicine takes place on January 11-12, 2017 in Berlin.

A molecule that only occurs on vessel walls of arteries causing inflammations there could be the foundation for a novel treatment of atherosclerosis. Researchers working with Oliver Söhnlein from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research and from LMU Munich report about this...

Myocardial infarction differs in men and women. Women fall ill later, but they die from it more often. Overall, men are affected more often. These and further differences are not attributed to the X chromosome. This was discovered by an international consortium under the...

Cell models from stem cells serve an ever-increasing role in research of cardiac dysfunction. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the DZHK have succeeded in producing cells which offer new insights into properties of the heart. They installed a molecular...

Heidelberg/Greifswald/Berlin, 21 July 2016. The world’s largest patient registry on heart muscle disease, TORCH (TranslatiOnal Registry for CardiomyopatHies), has enrolled its 1,000th patient. “In just one-and-a-half years, we have almost reached the halfway mark in our project...

A small insertable monitor could flag impending complications such as cardiac arrhythmias in certain patients following myocardial infarction. If preventive measures are then taken in good time, the prognosis of those patients could be improved. Whether this really works is now...