About the Authors

Jingyuan Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingyuan Luo, Jesse M. Flynn

Affiliation Science and Technology Policy Program, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jesse M. Flynn

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingyuan Luo, Jesse M. Flynn

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rachel E. Solnick

Affiliation Science and Technology Policy Program, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Elaine Howard Ecklund

Affiliation Department of Sociology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kirstin R. W. Matthews

krwm@rice.edu

Affiliation Science and Technology Policy Program, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KRWM JMF EHE. Performed the experiments: JL JMF KRWM RES. Analyzed the data: JL JMF KRWM. Wrote the paper: KRWM JL JMF EHE RES.