About the Authors

Vito Conte

Affiliation Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Florian Ulrich

Affiliation Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America

Buzz Baum

Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Jose Muñoz

Affiliation Laboratori de Càlcul Numèric, Department of Applied Mathematics III, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Jim Veldhuis

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Wayne Brodland

Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Mark Miodownik

m.miodownik@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Mechanical Engineering Department, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM WB BB. Performed the experiments: FU BB VC JV. Analyzed the data: VC JM MM GWB BB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FU JV VC. Wrote the paper: MM GWB VC.