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First published online 29 March 2007
doi: 10.1242/dev.002014

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The heart's Da Vinci code: a renaissance at Keystone

¹ Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Department of Pediatrics and University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
² Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.

^* Author for correspondence (e-mail: bbruneau{at}gladstone.ucsf.edu)

SUMMARY

At a recent Keystone symposium on `Molecular Pathways in Cardiac Development and Disease' in Colorado, significant advances in the understanding of heart development were discussed. The identification and isolation of cardiovascular progenitors, their modulation by secreted factors, and some tantalizing insights into cardiac regeneration were some of the highlights of what was characterized by some as a renaissance in cardiovascular development.