About the Authors

Yufei Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Adrian F. Pegoraro

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

David A. Weitz

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Physics, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Janmey

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sean X. Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ssun@jhu.edu

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Cell Dynamics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.