About the Authors

Ron Stewart

rstewart@morgridgeinstitute.org

Affiliation Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Cynthia Alexander Rascón

Affiliation Technical University Dresden, DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 105 01039 Dresden, Germany

Shulan Tian

Affiliation Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jeff Nie

Affiliation Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Chris Barry

Affiliation Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Li-Fang Chu

Affiliation Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Hamisha Ardalani

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ryan J. Wagner

Affiliation Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Mitchell D. Probasco

Affiliation Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jennifer M. Bolin

Affiliation Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ning Leng

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Srikumar Sengupta

Affiliation Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Michael Volkmer

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany

Bianca Habermann

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany

Elly M. Tanaka

Affiliation Technical University Dresden, DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 105 01039 Dresden, Germany

James A. Thomson

Affiliations Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Cell & Regenerative Biology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Colin N. Dewey

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS CB LC JAT CND. Performed the experiments: CB LC HA RJW MDP JMB SS. Analyzed the data: RS CAR ST JN NL MV BH EMT CND. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EMT. Wrote the paper: RS CND.