About the Authors

Neil Curtis

n.curtis@hull.ac.uk

Affiliation Medical and Biological Engineering Research Group, Department of Engineering, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

Marc E. H. Jones

Affiliation Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Junfen Shi

Affiliation Medical and Biological Engineering Research Group, Department of Engineering, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

Paul O'Higgins

Affiliation Hull-York Medical School, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Susan E. Evans

Affiliation Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Michael J. Fagan

Affiliation Medical and Biological Engineering Research Group, Department of Engineering, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC MEHJ JS PO SEE MJF. Performed the experiments: NC. Analyzed the data: NC MEHJ JS PO SEE MJF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NC JS. Wrote the paper: NC. Contributed significantly to editing of the submitted manuscript: MEHJ JS PO SEE MJF. Created the computational models: NC MEHJ. Developed analysis techniques: NC JS.