Editing a gene that prompts a cascade of damage after a heart attack appeared to reverse this inevitable course in mice, leaving their hearts remarkably unharmed, a new study by US scientists showed.

A Barts Health NHS Trust project which has cut the time spent in hospital for some heart attack patients by more than half has won a Health Service Journal award.

An investigational radiotracer has met its co-primary endpoints of exceeding a 60 per cent threshold for sensitivity and specificity for detecting Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

Researchers from leading organisations have joined forces to map the specific variations in more than 25 key cardiac disease genes which have a negative impact on heart function.