About the Authors

Rong Liu

Affiliations Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, California Nanosystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sijie Lin

Affiliation Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, California Nanosystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert Rallo

Affiliations Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, California Nanosystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Departament d'Enginyeria Informatica i Matematiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalunya, Spain

Yan Zhao

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert Damoiseaux

Affiliation Molecular Shared Screening Resources, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tian Xia

Affiliations Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, California Nanosystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine - Division of NanoMedicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shuo Lin

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Andre Nel

Affiliations Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, California Nanosystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine - Division of NanoMedicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yoram Cohen

yoram@ucla.edu

Affiliations Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, California Nanosystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL SJL. Wrote the paper: RL YC RR AN SJL. Developed the model: RL RR YC. Designed the in vivo HTS: SJL YZ TX RD SL. Contributed image data/materials: SJL YZ RD SL AN.