About the Authors

Shiran Shapira

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Integrated Cancer Prevention Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Shlomo Pleban

Affiliation EMERALD BIO-LABS LTD, Netanya, Israel

Diana Kazanov

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Integrated Cancer Prevention Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Peter Tirosh

Affiliation EMERALD BIO-LABS LTD, Netanya, Israel

Nadir Arber

nadir@tlvmc.gov.il

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Integrated Cancer Prevention Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

EMERALD BIO-LABS LTD provided support in the form of salaries for authors SP & PT, but this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS DK SP NA. Performed the experiments: SS DK. Analyzed the data: SS SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS NA PT. Wrote the paper: SS SP NA.