About the Authors

Vikash Chandra

Affiliation Tissue Engineering and Banking Laboratory, National Centre for Cell Science, Ganeshkhind, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Swetha G

Affiliation Tissue Engineering and Banking Laboratory, National Centre for Cell Science, Ganeshkhind, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Sudhakar Muthyala

Affiliation Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Amit K. Jaiswal

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Jayesh R. Bellare

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Prabha D. Nair

Affiliation Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Ramesh R. Bhonde

rrbhonde@hotmail.com

Affiliation Tissue Engineering and Banking Laboratory, National Centre for Cell Science, Ganeshkhind, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC RRB. Performed the experiments: VC SG AKJ SM. Analyzed the data: VC SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RRB JRB PDN. Wrote the paper: VC SG RRB.