About the Authors

Tae-Jin Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Tae-Jin Kim, Jie Sun

Affiliations Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jie Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Tae-Jin Kim, Jie Sun

Affiliation Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Shaoying Lu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ying-Xin Qi

Affiliation Institute of Mechanobiology and Medical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yingxiao Wang

yiw015@eng.ucsd.edu

Affiliations Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK JS YW. Performed the experiments: TK JS. Analyzed the data: TK JS SL YW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: TK JS YQ YW.