About the Authors

Marc Herant

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cheng-Yuk Lee

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Micah Dembo

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Volkmar Heinrich

vheinrich@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH VH. Performed the experiments: CYL. Analyzed the data: MH CYL VH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH MD. Wrote the paper: MH VH.