Nanotechnology: DNA origami boosts sensitivity of rapid tests

Early detection of strokes and heart attacks

08-Apr-2025 - An LMU team has developed a technology that can amplify the signals of biomarkers in conventional test strips more than a hundredfold. Now the researchers are commercializing the method. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, pretty much everybody is familiar with this technology: paper-based rapid test ...

Signatures of of heart attack - Multi-omics factor analysis provides new insights

Analysed for the first time: How does the immune system react to a heart attack?

23-May-2024 - Improving the outcome of patients after a heart attack is one of the major challenges of cardiology. This includes a comprehensive understanding of the pathophysiology and early detection of those patients who have a high risk of an unfavorable outcome. Researchers at LMU University Hospital, ...

Researchers Discover Novel Cell Type that Controls the Formation and Growth of New Blood Vessels

Molecular Code Stimulates Pioneer Cells to Build Blood Vessels in the Body

19-Apr-2024 - Cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and myocardial infarction, are the world's leading causes of mortality, accounting for over 18 million deaths a year. A team of KIT researchers has now identified a new cell type in blood vessels responsible for vascular growth. This discovery may allow ...

A standard blood test can predict a heart attack

Using the results of a standard blood test and an online tool, you can find out if you are at increased risk of having a heart attack within six months

15-Feb-2024 - The tool has been developed by a research group at Uppsala University in the hope of increasing patients’ motivation to change their lifestyle. Heart attacks are the most common cause of death in the world and are increasing globally. Many high-risk people are not identified or do not take their ...

Researchers have succeeded in identifying the proteins in the coronavirus that can damage blood vessels

05-Nov-2021 - Nearly two years since becoming a global pandemic that has killed millions of people, the mystery of which proteins in the SARS-CoV-2 virus are responsible for severe vascular damage that could even lead to heart attack or stroke has not yet been solved. Now, for the first time, a team of experts ...

Specific control molecule in platelets identified

Starting point for drug development against thrombosis, heart attack and stroke

12-Aug-2020 - The previously largely unknown molecule bridging integrator 2 (BIN2) plays a central role in platelet activation, as researchers from Würzburg have now shown in a joint project of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 240. This finding provides indications of starting points for drug ...

Aspirin cuts heart attack risk but increases chance of dangerous bleeding

24-Jan-2019 - Regular aspirin should not be recommended for preventing heart attack and stroke in people without cardiovascular disease. The researchers, from Imperial’s National Heart and Lung Institute and King's College London, analysed 13 clinical trials – involving more than 164,000 participants – that ...

Vigilin, the lock keeper

Researchers have discovered a molecule in liver cells that controls the release of fat

29-Sep-2016 - ETH researchers have discovered a molecule in liver cells that controls the release of fat into the bloodstream. This “lock keeper” is present in large quantities in overweight people and leads indirectly to vascular narrowing. Anyone attending Munich’s famous Oktoberfest will know it can leave ...

Gold nanoparticles show promise for early detection of heart attacks

20-Jan-2015 - NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering professors have been collaborating with researchers from Peking University on a new test strip that is demonstrating great potential for the early detection of certain heart attacks.Kurt H. Becker, a professor in the Department of Applied Physics and the ...

Nanoparticle pinpoints blood vessel plaques

A step toward indentifying plaques vulnearble to rupture and cause heart attack and stroke

10-Feb-2014 - A team of researchers, led by scientists at Case Western Reserve University, has developed a multifunctional nanoparticle that enables magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to pinpoint blood vessel plaques caused by atherosclerosis. The technology is a step toward creating a non-invasive method of ...