About the Authors

Sara Hooshangi

Affiliations College of Professional Studies, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

William E. Bentley

bentley@eng.umd.edu

Affiliations Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH WEB. Performed the experiments: SH. Analyzed the data: SH WEB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH WEB. Wrote the paper: SH WEB.