KGW-TV previews a multi-media lecture by Larry Sherman, Ph.D., on the effects of music and the brain.

In a Discover Magazine article about aging in place, Jeffrey Kaye, M.D., says the ultimate goal of these initiatives and technology development is to keep people independent as long as possible as they age.

Foundation Medicine announces the company will present 21 abstracts at the American Society for Clinical Oncology annual meeting, including one presentation featuring data from the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute on the clinical utility of liquid-based comprehensive genomic profiling in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors, or GIST.

Julie Graff, M.D., and Alexandra Sokolova, M.D., publish a JAMA Oncology invited commentary on a study looking at the toxic effects of newer prostate cancer therapies. They urge clinicians to “carefully consider the risks and benefits when prescribing these therapies for individual patients.”

In a HuffPost article about whether ashwagandha can help treat symptoms of stress, Amala Soumyanath, Ph.D., says, “I would say that there’s some reasonably sound clinical evidence for effects on stress and sleep. There’s a lot of pre-clinical evidence for its efficacy in anxiety, but maybe less by way of clinical evidence for it.”

Chemical & Engineering News reports on scientific advancements to repair or replace disease-causing mutations in the DNA of mitochondria, the energy-producing organelle in most cells of the body. The story notes that Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., is a leader in developing a therapy to prevent mitochondrial disease by replacing mutated mtDNA with donor mtDNA in human eggs.

In an OHSU News story revealing the first details on how stem cell transplantation can kill virus that causes AIDS, Jonah Sacha, Ph.D., says, “Five patients have already demonstrated that HIV can be cured. This study is helping us home in on the mechanisms involved in making that cure happen. We hope our discoveries will help to make this cure work for anyone, and ideally through a single injection instead of a stem cell transplant.” Collaborator Richard Maziarz, M.D., says: “These results highlight the power of linking human clinical studies with pre-clinical macaque experiments to answer questions that would be almost impossible to do otherwise, as well as demonstrate a path forward to curing human disease.”

Brandon Maughan, M.D., is part of the 2023 class of the National Academy of Medicine’s Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence program, which offers a one-year, part-time experience to advance diagnostic skills.

In a video interview with Urology Times, Christopher Ryan, M.D., discusses imaging in prostate cancer.

Paula Amato, M.D., is quoted in an NPR-Radio story on scientific advancements related to in vitro gametogenesis. The story was broadcast by scores of public radio stations across the country.