About the Authors

Brett G. Zani

zani@mit.edu

Affiliation Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laura Indolfi

Affiliations Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biomaterials (CRIB) - Italian Institute of Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Elazer R. Edelman

Affiliations Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BZ. Performed the experiments: BZ LI. Analyzed the data: BZ LI ERE. Wrote the paper: BZ ERE.