About the Authors

David D. R. Sebinger

Affiliation Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Mathieu Unbekandt

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Veronika V. Ganeva

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Andreas Ofenbauer

Affiliation Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Carsten Werner

Affiliation Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Jamie A. Davies

jamie.davies@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AO CW JAD. Performed the experiments: DS MU VG AO. Analyzed the data: DS MU VG AO. Wrote the paper: DS JAD. Supervised Sebinger and Ganeva in some experiments in the UK: MU. Supervised Sebinger when working in Germany: CW.