About the Authors

Jordi Duch

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordi Duch, Xiao Han T. Zeng

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Departament d’Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Xiao Han T. Zeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordi Duch, Xiao Han T. Zeng

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Marta Sales-Pardo

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Departament d’Enginyeria Química, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Filippo Radicchi

Affiliations Departament d’Enginyeria Química, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Shayna Otis

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Teresa K. Woodruff

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Women’s Health Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Luís A. Nunes Amaral

amaral@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD MS-P FR TKW LANA. Performed the experiments: JD XHTZ MS-P FR SO. Analyzed the data: JD XHTZ MS-P FR TKW LANA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD FR. Wrote the paper: JD XHTZ MS-P TKW LANA. Prepared the figures: XHTZ.