About the Authors

Nilay Chakraborty

chakraborty.nilay@mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Center for Engineering in Medicine and BioMEMS Resource Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael A. Menze

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, United States of America

Jason Malsam

Affiliation Biostabilization Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Alptekin Aksan

Affiliation Biostabilization Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Steven C. Hand

Affiliation Division of Cellular, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Mehmet Toner

Affiliation Center for Engineering in Medicine and BioMEMS Resource Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC MM AA SH MT. Performed the experiments: NC MM JM. Analyzed the data: NC MM JM AA SH MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NC AA MT. Wrote the paper: NC MM AA SH MT.