About the Authors

Bryan Black

Contributed equally to this work with: Bryan Black, Rafael Granja-Vazquez, Benjamin R. Johnston

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, United States of America

Rafael Granja-Vazquez

Contributed equally to this work with: Bryan Black, Rafael Granja-Vazquez, Benjamin R. Johnston

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, United States of America

Benjamin R. Johnston

Contributed equally to this work with: Bryan Black, Rafael Granja-Vazquez, Benjamin R. Johnston

Affiliation Alpert Medical School, Brown University, 222 Richmond St., Providence, RI, 02903, United States of America

Erick Jones

Affiliation Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 500 West 1st St., Arlington, TX, 76019, United States of America

Mario Romero-Ortega

mir140030@utdallas.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, TX, 75080, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Dr. Mario Romero-Ortega is the founder and CSO of Nerve Solutions, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRO RGV BB. Performed the experiments: RGV BRJ BB. Analyzed the data: MRO BRJ BB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRO EJ. Wrote the paper: MRO BB.