Publications by authors named "B Boeckx"

tRNA-derived stress-induced RNAs (tiRNAs) are a new class of small non-coding RNA that have emerged as important regulators of cellular stress responses. tiRNAs are derived from specific tRNA cleavage by the stress-induced ribonuclease angiogenin (ANG). Loss-of-function mutations in the ANG gene are linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and elevated levels of specific tiRNAs were recently identified in ALS patient serum samples.

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  • Immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) combined with chemotherapy is the standard treatment for stage II-III triple-negative breast cancer, but the effectiveness of ICI alone remains unclear.
  • The adaptive BELLINI trial found that short-term ICI treatments led to immune activation in a significant portion of patients, correlating immune response with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes.
  • A new cohort is being studied with patients who have high levels of these lymphocytes; early results show a notable rate of major and complete pathological responses post-treatment, suggesting that neoadjuvant ICI could be a promising approach without chemotherapy.
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Background & Aims: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is considered a multisystemic disorder in which CF-associated liver disease (CFLD) is the third most common cause of mortality. Currently, no effective treatment is available for CFLD because its pathophysiology is still unclear. Interestingly, CFLD exhibits identical vascular characteristics as non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, recently classified as porto-sinusoidal vascular disorders (PSVD).

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An important challenge in the real-world management of patients with advanced clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (aRCC) is determining who might benefit from immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Here we performed a comprehensive multiomics mapping of aRCC in the context of ICB treatment, involving discovery analyses in a real-world data cohort followed by validation in independent cohorts. We cross-connected bulk-tumor transcriptomes across >1,000 patients with validations at single-cell and spatial resolutions, revealing a patient-specific crosstalk between proinflammatory tumor-associated macrophages and (pre-)exhausted CD8 T cells that was distinguished by a human leukocyte antigen repertoire with higher preference for tumoral neoantigens.

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