About the Authors
- Sara Crocetti
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Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, Institute of Biomechanics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
- Christian Beyer
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Affiliation Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
- Grit Schade
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Affiliation Amphasys AG, Technopark Luzern, Root D4, Switzerland
- Marcel Egli
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Affiliation The Center of Competence in Aerospace Biomedical Science and Technology, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hergiswil, Switzerland
- Jürg Fröhlich
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Affiliation Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
- Alfredo Franco-Obregón
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* E-mail: franco@hest.ethz.ch
Affiliations Institute of Biomechanics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Surgery, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Competing Interests
One of the authors, Grit Shade, is an employee of Amphasys, the company that provided the authors with the prototype of the Impedance Flow Cytometer utilized to conduct some of the experiments in the manuscript. GS provided technical support only. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AFO JF SC. Performed the experiments: SC. Analyzed the data: AFO SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ME JF GS. Wrote the paper: AFO SC CB. Realized PEMFs device and provided technical support: JF CB. Provided IFC instrument, technical support and help with analysis and interpretation of the IFC results: GS.