About the Authors

Zhongliang Ju

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongliang Ju, Sangeeta S. Chavan

Affiliation Laboratory of Biomedical Science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Sangeeta S. Chavan

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongliang Ju, Sangeeta S. Chavan

Affiliation Laboratory of Biomedical Science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Daniel J. Antoine

Affiliation MRC Centre for Drug Safety Science, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Meghan Dancho

Affiliation Laboratory of Biomedical Science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Teá Tsaava

Affiliation Laboratory of Biomedical Science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Jianhua Li

Affiliation Laboratory of Biomedical Science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Ben Lu

Affiliation Laboratory of Biomedical Science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Yaakov A. Levine

Affiliation SetPoint Medical Corporation, Valencia, California, United States of America

Andrew Stiegler

Affiliation Circulatory Technology Inc., Oyster Bay, New York, United States of America

Yehuda Tamari

Affiliation Circulatory Technology Inc., Oyster Bay, New York, United States of America

Yousef Al-Abed

Affiliation Medicinal Chemistry, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Jesse Roth

Affiliation Laboratory of Biomedical Science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Kevin J. Tracey

Affiliation Laboratory of Biomedical Science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Huan Yang

hyang@nshs.edu

Affiliation Laboratory of Biomedical Science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have the following interests: Yaakov A. Levine is employed by SetPoint Medical Corporation. Andrew Stiegler is employed by Circulatory Technology Inc (CTI), and Yehuda Tamari is the President of CTI. CTI has financial competing interests in the DNA beads technology. There are no further patents or products to declare and these affiliations do not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HY YT KJT SSC. Performed the experiments: ZJ YAA MD HY DJA. Analyzed the data: HY YT AS KJT SSC BL YAL TT ZJ DJA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL. Wrote the paper: ZJ AS YT KJT JR SSC HY.