About the Authors

Amanda A. Mack

amack@cellulardynamics.com

Affiliation Cellular Dynamics International, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Stacie Kroboth

Affiliation Cellular Dynamics International, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Deepika Rajesh

Affiliation Cellular Dynamics International, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Wen Bo Wang

Affiliation Cellular Dynamics International, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflict. All authors are employed by, and have a financial interest in, Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. Additionally, some of the authors are listed as inventors on a patent application related to the work presented in this paper (Patent CDIN.P0031US entitled “Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from small volumes of peripheral blood”). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAM. Performed the experiments: AAM SK DR. Analyzed the data: AAM SK DR WBW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAM SK DR. Wrote the paper: AAM.