About the Authors

Aimee Shen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Patrick J. Lupardus

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Montse Morell

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Elizabeth L. Ponder

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

A. Masoud Sadaghiani

Affiliation Department of Systems and Chemical Biology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

K. Christopher Garcia

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Institute, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Matthew Bogyo

mbogyo@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

A.S., P.J.L., K.C.G., and M.B. are listed as inventors on a provisional patent application describing the CPD purification system technology. This patent will not alter the authors' adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Materials and information associated with the authors' publication will be freely available to those as requested for the purpose of academic, non-commercial research.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS PJL MM ELP AMS KCG MB. Performed the experiments: AS PJL MM ELP AMS. Analyzed the data: AS PJL MM ELP AMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS PJL MM ELP AMS KCG. Wrote the paper: AS MB.