| Institution: | 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA;2. Drs Luu, Pessin, Judex, and Rubin have submitted a series of provisional patents to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regarding the method and application of the technology. Dr Rubin is a founder of and consultant for Juvent Medical and is an inventor of the technology investigated herein, and both he and the company may benefit from the results of this research. No other authors state that they have conflicts of interest.;3. Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA;4. The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA;5. Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA |
