About the Authors

Marie-Louise Bang

marie-louise.bang@cnr.it (M-LB); juchen@ucsd.edu (JC)

Affiliation Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research, UOS Milan, National Research Council and Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano (Milan), Italy

Yusu Gu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Nancy D. Dalton

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kirk L. Peterson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kenneth R. Chien

Affiliations Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Medicine, Karolinska Insititutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Harvard University, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ju Chen

marie-louise.bang@cnr.it (M-LB); juchen@ucsd.edu (JC)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLB KLP KRC JC. Performed the experiments: MLB YG ND. Analyzed the data: MLB YG ND. Wrote the paper: MLB JC.