Markus Frank

Reposted from Brigham Clinical & Research News Throughout our lives, our skin goes through a lot. We get sunburns, we skin our knees, we bleed, we scar and we do it again. Our skin is our largest organ and, in many ways, serves as our protector. Beyond...

A stem cell therapy for cornea regeneration reaches the clinical-trial stage By Jessica Lau As the eye’s outer layer of protection, the cornea needs to constantly regenerate to maintain a clear surface. Losing the cornea-regenerating stem cells leads to...

Markus Frank and his colleagues are reprogramming skin cells with the goal of giving people back their sight. Seed funding from HSCI led Markus Frank and his colleagues to discover that the cell surface molecule ABCB5 can be used to identify limbal stem...

Stem cells within the limbus of the human eye can now be purified with the help of an antibody. Discovery is expected to quickly translate into improved human therapies A Boston-based scientific collaborative, led by Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI)...