About the Authors
- Thomas Walenda
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Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Walenda, Yvonne Diener
Affiliation Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany
- Yvonne Diener
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Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Walenda, Yvonne Diener
Affiliation Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
- Edgar Jost
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Affiliation Department for Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology and Stem Cell Transplantation, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany
- Elizabeth Morin-Kensicki
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Current address: Attain, LLC, Morrisville, NC, 27560, United States of America
Affiliation Metabolon, Inc., Durham, NC, 27519, United States of America
- Tamme W. Goecke
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Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, German
- Andreas Bosio
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Affiliation Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
- Björn Rath
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Affiliation Department for Orthopedics, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany
- Tim H. Brümmendorf
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Affiliation Department for Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology and Stem Cell Transplantation, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany
- Ute Bissels
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Affiliation Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
- Wolfgang Wagner
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* E-mail: wwagner@ukaachen.de
Affiliation Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors declare that Yvonne Diener, Ute Bissels and Andreas Bosio are employed at Miltenyi Biotec GmbH. Elizabeth Morin-Kensicki was employed by Metabolon Inc. WW is involved in the company Cygenia, but this company is not involved in this study (no salary or any other role). Wolfgang Wagner is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No further competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TW YD UB EMK WW. Performed the experiments: TW YD UB EMK. Analyzed the data: TW YD UB EMK AB WW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EJ TG BR TB. Wrote the paper: TW YD UB WW.