About the Authors

Eric Y. T. Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Y. T. Chen, Yung-Chen Wang

Affiliation Bioengineering, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Yung-Chen Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Y. T. Chen, Yung-Chen Wang

Affiliation Bioengineering, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Chi-Shuo Chen

Affiliation Bioengineering, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Wei-Chun Chin

wchin2@ucmerced.edu

Affiliation Bioengineering, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EYTC WCC. Performed the experiments: EYTC YCW CSC. Analyzed the data: EYTC YCW CSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EYTC YCW WCC CSC. Wrote the paper: EYTC WCC.