Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core

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🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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First this week, Associate Editor Kelly Servick joins us to discuss a big push to develop scalable blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease and how this could advance research on the disease and its treatment. Next, Amir Khan, a senior scientist at the Physics Institute of the University of Zurich and the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zürich, talks with multimedia intern Claire Hogan about marsquakes detected by NASA’s InSight lander—and what they can reveal about Mars’s crust, mantle, and core. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: C. Bickel/Science; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kelly Servick; Claire Hogan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.2	Welcome to the science podcast for July 23, 2021.
1:23.1	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:24.5	Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in science
1:28.2	and the sister journals. First up this week, staff writer Kelly Servic joins me to discuss the
1:33.3	possibility of blood tests for Alzheimer's disease. Could they be used for testing new drugs or
1:39.7	diagnosing the disorder itself? Next, researcher Amir Khan talks with intern Claire Hogan
1:45.8	about what Marsquakes can reveal about the red planet's crust, mantle, and core. Last year, about 6 million people in the U.S. were living with Alzheimer's disease.
2:10.0	And by 2016, that number could be as many as 14 million people living with the disease.
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