About the Authors

Monika Burns

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sureshkumar Muthupalani

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhongming Ge

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Timothy C. Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Vasudevan Bakthavatchalu

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Catriona Cunningham

Affiliations Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Kathleen Ennis

Affiliation Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Michael Georgieff

Affiliation Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

James G. Fox

jgfox@mit.edu

Affiliations Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JGF TCW MG MB. Performed the experiments: MB CC KE SM VB. Analyzed the data: MB ZG KE MG JGF SM VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG JGF. Wrote the paper: MB SM TCW MG JGF VB.