About the Authors

Sivan Pearl

Affiliations Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel , The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel , Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Chana Gabay

Affiliation Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Roy Kishony

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amos Oppenheim

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Nathalie Q Balaban

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nathalieqb@phys.huji.ac.il

Affiliations Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel , The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SP, AO, and NQB conceived and designed the experiments. SP, CG, and NQB performed the experiments. SP, RK, and NQB analyzed the data. AO contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SP, RK, and NQB wrote the paper.