Funding

Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). The authors were funded by FEDER and NORTE 2020 through project no. 003262 titled “iBONE therapies: advanced solutions for bone regeneration.” This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of the UID/BIO/04469 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01–0145-FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01–0145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte 2020—Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. The authors were granted a scholarship (SFRH/BD/132000/2017) by Portuguese FCT. This work was also funded by project UIDB/CVT/00772/2020 supported by FCT.