Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank S Duncanson, Graduate Research Assistant in his laboratory, for critically reviewing the manuscript.
Financial & competing interests disclosure
A Sambanis is Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Adjunct Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The author‘s research is currently supported by grants from the NIH (R01 DK076801 and R01 DK073991) and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
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