About the Authors

Anne Golding

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Justin A. Guay

Contributed equally to this work with: Justin A. Guay, Celia Herrera-Rincon

Affiliation Department of Biology, Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Celia Herrera-Rincon

Contributed equally to this work with: Justin A. Guay, Celia Herrera-Rincon

Affiliation Department of Biology, Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Levin

Affiliation Department of Biology, Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

David L. Kaplan

david.kaplan@tufts.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG JG CHR ML DK. Performed the experiments: AG JG CHR. Analyzed the data: AG JG CHR ML DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG JG CHR. Wrote the paper: AG JG CHR ML DK.