3) The co-authors of the role of the endoderm in heart formation study, published Developmental Biology, (September) were Jonathan Alexander, Michael Rothenberg, a graduate student in Jun's lab, and Gilbert L. Henry, PhD, of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. (ucsf.edu)
To investigate this question, Ganga Karunamuni of Case Western University and her colleagues studied heart formation in quail embryos, whose heart development is very similar to that of humans. (sciencedaily.com)
GATA4 and TBX5 work together to activate genes responsible for heart formation and function, and silence genes involved in other organs. (gladstone.org)