Correction to: npj Regenerative Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41536-021-00184-6, published online 23 November 2021

In the Acknowledgements section, the funding source ‘support to the Centre for Mechanical Technology & Automation (TEMA; UID/EMS/00481/2019) and to the Institute of Biomedicine (iBiMED; UID/BIM/04501/2019)’ should have read ‘support to the Centre for Mechanical Technology & Automation (TEMA, UIDB/00481/2020 and UIDP/00481/2020), and to the Institute of Biomedicine (iBiMED, UIDB/04501/2020 and UIDP/04501/2020)’. The original article has been corrected.