📺 MDC Christmas Calendar

Published on December 1, 2021

The MDC Advent calendar is here! We will be opening a door for you every day until 24 December. Take a look and get to know our staff. They will show you what our research center looks like from the inside and what is currently being researched at the MDC.

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Towards a better understanding of heart failure

December 1, 2021
The heart can get weak in different ways. One form of the disease, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), continues to be extremely difficult to treat. MDC researchers are involved in a new Collaborative Research Center, where they aim to change this and develop therapeutic approaches. When the heart is unable to supply the body with enough blood – and hence oxygen and nutrients

How to fill a heart

December 1, 2021
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction was previously considered largely untreatable. An MDC team led by Michael Gotthardt has now succeeded for the first time in improving cardiac function with the help of a synthetic nucleic acid, as the researchers report in the journal "Science Translational Medicine". Patients with heart failure often have shortness of breath and become fatigued qui