 Subsequent collaboration with dermatologists to obtain skin samples from patients with the dermatological disorder revealed that a similar mutation in keratin genes indeed underlies epidermolysis bullosa simplex.Elaine Fuchs and her team have conducted research on the way that cancerous stem cells called squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) interact with their microenvironments.SCCs are relevant to cancer research because they are some of the most common and dangerous cancers worldwide.