About the Authors

Jessamine P. Winer

winer@seas.upenn.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute for Medicine & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shaina Oake

Affiliation Institute for Medicine & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Paul A. Janmey

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute for Medicine & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPW PAJ. Performed the experiments: JPW SO. Analyzed the data: JPW SO. Wrote the paper: JPW PAJ.