About the Authors

Shelly E. Tannenbaum

Contributed equally to this work with: Shelly E. Tannenbaum, Tikva Tako Turetsky, Orna Singer

Affiliation The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Tikva Tako Turetsky

Contributed equally to this work with: Shelly E. Tannenbaum, Tikva Tako Turetsky, Orna Singer

Affiliation The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Orna Singer

Contributed equally to this work with: Shelly E. Tannenbaum, Tikva Tako Turetsky, Orna Singer

Affiliation The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Einat Aizenman

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Sophie Kirshberg

Affiliation The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Nili Ilouz

Affiliation The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Yaniv Gil

Affiliation The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Yael Berman-Zaken

Affiliation The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Temima Schnitzer Perlman

Affiliation The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Nitshia Geva

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Ora Levy

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Daniel Arbell

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Alex Simon

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Assaf Ben-Meir

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Yoel Shufaro

Affiliations The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Neri Laufer

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Benjamin E. Reubinoff

benjaminr@ekmd.huji.ac.il

Affiliations The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

All of the authors have declared that no competing interests exist. However, Professor Beni Reubinoff has read the journal’s policy and has the following conflicts: he is the CSO and holds shares in Cell Cure Neurosciences Ltd., and is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Kadimastem Ltd. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SET TTT OS BER. Performed the experiments: OS SK YG YBZ NG OL. Analyzed the data: TTT OS EA SK NI YG YBZ TSP NG OL DA ABM AS YS NL BER. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EA TSP. Wrote the paper: SET BER. Revised the article for important intellectual content: SET TTT OS NI BER. Drafted part of the article: TTT EA.