About the Authors

Tony M. Dinis

Contributed equally to this work with: Tony M. Dinis, Guillaume Vidal

Affiliations Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS UMR 7338: BioMécanique et BioIngénierie, Centre de Recherches, BP 20529, Compiègne, France, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Guillaume Vidal

Contributed equally to this work with: Tony M. Dinis, Guillaume Vidal

Affiliation Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS UMR 7338: BioMécanique et BioIngénierie, Centre de Recherches, BP 20529, Compiègne, France

Rodrigo R. Jose

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pascale Vigneron

Affiliation Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS UMR 7338: BioMécanique et BioIngénierie, Centre de Recherches, BP 20529, Compiègne, France

Damien Bresson

Affiliation Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS UMR 7338: BioMécanique et BioIngénierie, Centre de Recherches, BP 20529, Compiègne, France

Vincent Fitzpatrick

Affiliation Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS UMR 7338: BioMécanique et BioIngénierie, Centre de Recherches, BP 20529, Compiègne, France

Frédéric Marin

Affiliation Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS UMR 7338: BioMécanique et BioIngénierie, Centre de Recherches, BP 20529, Compiègne, France

David L. Kaplan

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christophe Egles

Christophe.egles@utc.fr

Affiliations Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS UMR 7338: BioMécanique et BioIngénierie, Centre de Recherches, BP 20529, Compiègne, France, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

CE is currently an academic editor for PLOS ONE. This does not alter the adherence of all the authors to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TMD GV FM DLK CE. Performed the experiments: TMD GV RRJ PV DB. Analyzed the data: TMD GV VF PV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RRJ DLK. Wrote the paper: TMD GV FM DLK CE.