The Eleventh World Congress of the International Society for Heart Re- search 1983 provided an opportunity to review some of the growing points in our knowledge of the structure and function of the myocardium. Those at the meeting will recall how London suddenly went tropical. Yet aseries of scintillating reviews held over six hundred scientists captive in the lecture halls of Imperial College. There were sessions on nuclear magnetic reso- nance, the molecular basis of electrophysiology, calmodulin, protein syn- thesis and degradation, oxygen free radicals, the structural components of the...