About the Authors

Ratmir Derda

gwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.edu (GMW); ratmir.derda@ualberta.ca (RM)

Current address: Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sindy K. Y. Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sindy K. Y. Tang, Anna Laromaine, Bobak Mosadegh

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anna Laromaine

Contributed equally to this work with: Sindy K. Y. Tang, Anna Laromaine, Bobak Mosadegh

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bobak Mosadegh

Contributed equally to this work with: Sindy K. Y. Tang, Anna Laromaine, Bobak Mosadegh

Affiliation Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Estrella Hong

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martin Mwangi

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Akiko Mammoto

Affiliation Vascular Biology Program, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donald E. Ingber

Affiliations Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Vascular Biology Program, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

George M. Whitesides

gwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.edu (GMW); ratmir.derda@ualberta.ca (RM)

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

GM Whitesides has received a research grant from Vertex Inc. This grant does not influence his adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RD SKYT AL BM EH GMW. Performed the experiments: RD SKYT AL BM EH MM. Analyzed the data: RD SKYT BM GMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD SKYT AM DEI. Wrote the paper: RD SKYT BM DEI GMW.