TGFβ family signaling: novel insights in development and disease

Advances in our understanding of the many levels of regulation of TGF beta and BMP signaling were reported at the recent FASEB Summer Conference entitled 'The TGF beta Superfamily: Development and Disease', which was held in Carefree, Arizona, USA, on the northern edge of the Sonoran Desert. This conference was the fifth meeting in a biannual FASEB conference series and, as with the previous meetings, brought together biochemists, geneticists, developmental and tissue biologists interested in the inter-workings of TGF beta/BMP signaling pathways and in the consequences of these pathways going awry.