Popular Science (January 2014)

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2 Layered outcrop. Elevation: –4495 m 4 km C u ri o s i t y elevation dat a cour tesy Jet Pro p ul si o n L a b o rato r y–Ca l i fo rni a Ins ti tu te of Technol og y Waypoint No. 4 Elevation: –4466 m 6 km Mid-2014, base of Mt. Sharp Researchers expect clay deposits here to give Curiosity a view of an earlier, wetter Mars. Elevation: –4434 m 8 km JA NUA RY 2014 / P OPUL AR SCIENCE / 4 9 I Y S Researchers are also studying whether exosomes can be used to treat diseases, such as Huntington’s and multiple sclerosis, by delivering therapeutic RNA to cells.

2 Layered outcrop. Elevation: –4495 m 4 km C u ri o s i t y elevation dat a cour tesy Jet Pro p ul si o n L a b o rato r y–Ca l i fo rni a Ins ti tu te of Technol og y Waypoint No. 4 Elevation: –4466 m 6 km Mid-2014, base of Mt. Sharp Researchers expect clay deposits here to give Curiosity a view of an earlier, wetter Mars. Elevation: –4434 m 8 km JA NUA RY 2014 / P OPUL AR SCIENCE / 4 9 I Y S Researchers are also studying whether exosomes can be used to treat diseases, such as Huntington’s and multiple sclerosis, by delivering therapeutic RNA to cells.

C A S S A N D R A W I L LYA R D 14 10 B I LL IO N There are 10 billion exosomes in each milliliter of blood plasma. Just two to four milliliters of blood are needed for an exosome-based cancer test. SCIENCE BUDGETS STAY SMALL UNITED STATES Federal funding for basic research and development in 2013 was down 8 percent from the previous year and 16 percent from its peak in 2010. Congressional 2014 budgets don’t restore much, and sequestration caps could make money tight for the next decade. —and the innovation and growth that result from it—will probably slow, according to Matt Hourihan, director of the budget program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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