Periodic Reporting for period 1 - BioTec (Detection of bio-signatures in space research using a new and innovative measurement technique based on laser desorption ionisation mass spectrometry)

The detection of signatures of life, extinct or extant, on planetary bodies in our Solar System beyond Earth has challenged humankind since the first Viking mission on Mars in the 1970s. Detection of life, however, is extremely complex and depends on a set of various...