About the Authors

Sriram V. Eleswarapu

Contributed equally to this work with: Sriram V. Eleswarapu, Donald J. Responte

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Medical Scientist Training Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Donald J. Responte

Contributed equally to this work with: Sriram V. Eleswarapu, Donald J. Responte

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kyriacos A. Athanasiou

athanasiou@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KAA SVE DJR. Performed the experiments: SVE DJR. Analyzed the data: KAA SVE DJR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAA. Wrote the paper: KAA SVE DJR.