About the Authors

Christopher Vollmers

Affiliation Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Lolita Penland

Affiliation Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jad N. Kanbar

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen R. Quake

quake@stanford.edu

Affiliations Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Dept. of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CV SRQ. Performed the experiments: CV LP JNK. Analyzed the data: CV. Wrote the paper: CV SRQ.