A group of scientists at John Hopkins Medical School just received a $750,000 grant from NASA to developed a tiny mass spectrometer that would be designed to search for the 'chemicals of life'. The mass spec would be designed to go with a mission scheduled to launch in 2013. They hope to identify molecules that could indicate the building blocks of life (analogous to the bases and sugar and phosphorus backbone that make up DNA).
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