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Published online 18 March 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040315-9
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'Life chip' ready for 2009 Mars missions
Miniature laboratory will look for biological fingerprints.
Aminiature laboratory that can spot a tell-tale chemical signature of life is ready to be part of a 2009 Mars mission.
The device will look for amino acids, the molecular building blocks of proteins.
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