Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Hwa Chong Institution for providing the facilities to carry out this work, Mdm Lim Cheng Fui and Mr Xie Shun Quan of the SRC Biology lab for helping us while conducting our experiments, and most importantly our mentor, Mrs Goh-Yip Cheng Wai, who provided guidance to us throughout this project.
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