About the Authors

Yann Guyot

‡ YG and BS share first authorship on this work. HR, IP, and LG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Prometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Biomechanics Research Unit, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium

Bart Smeets

Bart.Smeets@biw.kuleuven.be

‡ YG and BS share first authorship on this work. HR, IP, and LG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Prometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Division of Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors (MeBioS), Leuven, Belgium, Biomechanics Section, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Tim Odenthal

Affiliation Division of Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors (MeBioS), Leuven, Belgium

Ramesh Subramani

Affiliation Division of Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors (MeBioS), Leuven, Belgium

Frank P. Luyten

Affiliations Prometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Herman Ramon

‡ YG and BS share first authorship on this work. HR, IP, and LG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors (MeBioS), Leuven, Belgium

Ioannis Papantoniou

‡ YG and BS share first authorship on this work. HR, IP, and LG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Prometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Liesbet Geris

‡ YG and BS share first authorship on this work. HR, IP, and LG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Prometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Biomechanics Research Unit, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, Biomechanics Section, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG BS IP. Performed the experiments: YG BS RS. Analyzed the data: YG BS TO RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS FPL LG IP HR. Wrote the paper: YG BS IP LG.