About the Authors

Rhogerry Deshycka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Valentino Sudaryo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Immunology Graduate Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Nai-Jia Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Yushu Xie

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Liyan Y. Smeding

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Moon Kyung Choi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Hidde L. Ploegh

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Harvey F. Lodish

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Novalia Pishesha

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

novalia.pishesha@childrens.harvard.edu

Current address: Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

H.F.L. and H.L.P. served as scientific advisors and have/had equity in Rubius, a biotechnology company that seeks to exploit engineered red blood cells as therapeutics but does not provide financial support for the technology described in this paper. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.