About the Authors

Shaoying Lu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yi Wang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

He Huang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yijia Pan

Affiliation Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Eric J. Chaney

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Stephen A. Boppart

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Howard Ozer

Affiliation Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alex Y. Strongin

Affiliation Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yingxiao Wang

yiw015@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering, Center of Biophysics and Computational Biology, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The co-author Yingxiao Wang is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL Yingxiao Wang. Performed the experiments: SL Yi Wang HH YP EC. Analyzed the data: SL SB HO AS Yingxiao Wang. Wrote the paper: SL SB HO AS Yingxiao Wang.