About the Authors

Erino Matsumoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Erino Matsumoto, Naoshi Koide

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Exploratory Research, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Naoshi Koide

Contributed equally to this work with: Erino Matsumoto, Naoshi Koide

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Hiroko Hanzawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Exploratory Research, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Masaharu Kiyama

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Center for Exploratory Research, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Mari Ohta

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Center for Exploratory Research, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Junichi Kuwabara

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Planning and Development Division, Sanplatec Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Shizu Takeda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

shizu.takeda.me@hitachi.com

Affiliation Center for Exploratory Research, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Masayo Takahashi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors M.K. and S.T. have licensed US patents 10087409, 10087410, and 10138450, and pending US patents 14/425331, 14/894033, 15/027485, 15/319905, 15/323977, and 15/536673 belonging to Hitachi, which are relevant to the study. All authors declare that this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials and that no other relationships/conditions/circumstances presenting potential competing interests exist.