About the Authors

John D. Loike

jdl5@columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

Anna Plitt

Affiliation Harvard University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Komal Kothari

Affiliation Harvard University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jona Zumeris

Affiliation NanoVibronix, Nesher, Israel

Sadna Budhu

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

Kaitlyn Kavalus

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

Yonatan Ray

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America, Regeneron Pharmaceutical Corp, Tarrytown, New York, United States of America

Harold Jacob

Affiliation NanoVibronix, Nesher, Israel

Competing Interests

Co-author Harold Jacob is employed by NanoVibronix. Co-author Yonatan Ray is employed by Regeneron Pharmaceutical Corp. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: JDL AP SB. Performed the experiments: YR K. Kothari K. Kavalus SB JDL AP. Analyzed the data: JDL SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJ JZ. Wrote the paper: JDL AP SB.