

Benjamin Emert
281 posts

@BenEmert
MD-PhD student @ University of Pennsylvania



Many intercellular communication systems (BMP, Notch, Wnt, FGF, etc) use sets of promiscuously interacting ligand and receptor variants rather than seemingly simpler one-to-one architectures. Why? Our 2 papers grappling w/this question just out in @CellSystemsCP






Excited to share my (first) first author preprint from @arjunrajlab + Twitterless Rajan Jain lab "Cell type determination for cardiac differentiation occurs soon after seeding of human induced pluripotent stem cells" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…




Online now! Defining the lineage of thermogenic perivascular adipose tissue dlvr.it/RxW7tm



Variability within rare cell states enables multiple paths toward drug resistance go.nature.com/3aGXEla



