Image acquisition was preformed using Cellometer® Vision CBA Image Cytometer (Nexcelom Bioscience LLC.). For image analysis we used Nexcelom Data Package and MATLAB software. Nexcelom filter VB-595-502 was used for red fluorescence assay in Cellometer. We used Nexcelom image segmentation (Supplementary Figs. 3 and 8) for object detection upon setting Cell Diameter parameter to 2–5 μm for single cells and 5–20 μm for clumps95 (link). The Object Roundness parameter was set to 0.45-0.8 (with 1.0 used for perfectly circular shapes) to separate single living cells from debris.
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