About the Authors

Ye Zeng

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Eno E. Ebong

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Bingmei M. Fu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

John M. Tarbell

tarbell@ccny.cuny.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ JMT. Performed the experiments: YZ. Analyzed the data: YZ JMT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ EEE BMF JMT. Wrote the paper: YZ JMT.