About the Authors

Edward D. Bonnevie

Affiliation Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Devis Galesso

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Fidia Farmaceutici SpA, Padua, Italy

Cynthia Secchieri

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Fidia Farmaceutici SpA, Padua, Italy

Itai Cohen

Affiliation Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Lawrence J. Bonassar

lb244@cornell.edu

Affiliations Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

Coauthors Galesso and Secchieri are employees of Fidia Farmaceutici SpA and were involved in experimental design, material preparation, and manuscript preparation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EDB DG CS IC LJB. Performed the experiments: EDB. Analyzed the data: EDB LJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DG CS. Wrote the paper: EDB IC LJB.