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Thousands of cardiac 'digital twins' offer new insights into the heart
For the first time, researchers have created over 3,800 anatomically accurate digital hearts to investigate how age, sex and lifestyle factors influence heart...
COMMENT: AI can guess racial categories from heart scans – what it means and why it matters
Imagine an AI model that can use a heart scan to guess what racial category you’re likely to be put in – even when it hasn’t been told what race is, or what...
New technique maps out regenerating heart cells
A technique that makes new heart cells permanently fluorescent could accelerate progress in developing therapies that cause parts of the heart to regenerate.
King's supports research collaboration to address obesity crisis
Researchers have united to form OBEClust, a multidisciplinary network of experts to develop solutions for obesity.
Kusuma Trust grants to support vital cardiac research
The Kusuma Trust has awarded King’s two grants worth over £570,000 to support cardiac research.
Disrupted recycling of proteins found to damage heart health
A new study has identified an enzyme that plays an important role in breaking down unneeded or damaged proteins in the heart – an important process for...
transCampus members contribute to new obesity guidelines
Members of transCampus, a unique partnership between King’s and Technische Universität Dresden, have contributed to the recently proposed guidelines on...
Researchers develop non-invasive method to assess diastolic function via pressure quantification in the heart
A team of researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, Rikhospitalet in Norway and partners in Japan and France have developed a...
Global Commission proposes major overhaul of obesity diagnosis
A global Commission, organised as a partnership between the medical journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and King’s Health Partners (KHP) and endorsed...
King's leads £50m centre to develop cutting-edge RNA therapies for heart disease
King’s scientists will lead an ambitious centre to develop transformative new advanced therapeutics for heart disease.
Researchers awarded £1.3m to standardise heart function measurements using AI
A team of researchers from the School has been awarded funding from the EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council) to study how artificial...
New research shows relationship between heart shape and risk of cardiovascular disease
A new multi-national study co-authored by King's researcher Professor Alistair Young has revealed that the shape of the heart is influenced in part by...
New study themes introduced for Biomedical Science students at King's
This year, students on our BSc Biomedical Science programme chose from six new study themes aligned with the research within the Faculty of Life Sciences &...
New medical breakthrough cuts stress in research animals
A new way to accurately measure heart function in research animals has the potential to make drug development more ethical and cost effective, new research...
Weight loss surgery could cut heart failure risk
A pioneering study has found that weight loss surgery improved the blood supply to the heart for people living with obesity.
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