About the Authors

Min-Cheol Kim

mincheol@mit.edu (MCK); asada@mit.edu (HHA)

Affiliations BioSystems and Micromechanics IRG, Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jordan Whisler

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yaron R. Silberberg

Affiliations BioSystems and Micromechanics IRG, Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Roger D. Kamm

Affiliations BioSystems and Micromechanics IRG, Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

H. Harry Asada

mincheol@mit.edu (MCK); asada@mit.edu (HHA)

Affiliations BioSystems and Micromechanics IRG, Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCK JW RDK YRS HHA. Performed the experiments: MCK JW YRS. Analyzed the data: MCK JW RDK YRS HHA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCK JW RDK YRS HHA. Wrote the paper: MCK JW YRS RDK HHA. Built a code for the model and performed simulations: MK.