Eric Hoste

Abstract Circulating nucleic acids in blood plasma form an attractive, minimally invasive resource to study human health and disease. In this study, we aimed to identify cell-free RNA alterations that can distinguish cancer patients from cancer-free individuals. We first performed mRNA capture sequencing on 266 blood plasma samples from cancer patients and controls, including a discovery set of 208 donors across 25 cancer types and a replication set of 58 donors across three cancer types.

Abstract Critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) frequently suffer from sepsis and severe multiple organ dysfunction with underlying widespread cell death. Pyroptosis and ferroptosis are regulated cell death forms that may serve as potential therapeutic targets. Pyroptosis is a major detrimental factor driving sepsis, which typically results in excessive oxidative stress potentially inducing ferroptotic organ injury.