Acknowledgement
This study was supported by the Basic Science Research Program (NRF-2022R1A2C2010940 to H.K. and NRF-2022R1A2C1003768, NRF-2023M3A9I4009901 to D.H.J.), the Creative Materials Discovery Program (NRF-2018M3D1A1058826 to J.H.K.) from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Korean government, the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) Research Initiative Program (KGM5362111 to J.H.K.), the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare (HN21C0917 to J.H.K.), Kun-hee Lee Child Cancer & Rare Disease Project, Republic of Korea (202200004004 to J.H.K.), Seoul National University Hospital Research Grant (18-2023-0010 to J.H.K.), and the Bio & Medical Technology Program of the NRF funded by the Korean government, MSIP (NRF-2022M3A9E4017127 to J.H.K.).
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