About the Authors

Sëma Kachalo

SK and HN contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607

Hammad Naveed

SK and HN contributed equally to this work

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Youfang Cao

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607

Jieling Zhao

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607

Jie Liang

jliang@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK HN YC JZ JL. Performed the experiments: SK HN YC JZ. Analyzed the data: SK HN YC JZ JL. Wrote the paper: SK HN YC JZ JL.