We present a comprehensive discussion of the role that microchip electrophoresis (ME)
instrumentation could play in future NASA missions of exploration, as well as the current …

The search for life in Solar System bodies such as Mars and Ocean Worlds (eg, Europa and
Enceladus) is an ongoing and high-priority endeavor in space science, even∼ five decades …

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a promising liquid-based technique for in situ chemical
analysis on ocean worlds that allows the detection of a wide range of organic molecules …

Technical advances in the development of field-deployable capillary and microchip
electrophoretic instruments and reports of their deployment between 2013 and 2017 were …

The detection of life markers is a high priority task in the exploration of the Solar System.
Biochips performing in-situ multiplex immunoassays are a very promising approach …

The discovery of meteoritic alpha-amino acids with significant enantiomeric excesses of the
L-form has suggested that some cosmic factors could serve as the initial source for chiral …

Stereoisomers (enantiomers and diastereoisomers) of synthetic, non-protein amino acids
comprising α-, β-, and γ-amino acids, including α, α-dialkyl amino acids, were converted into …

The search for extraterrestrial extant or extinct life in our Solar System will require highly
capable instrumentation and methods for detecting low concentrations of biosignatures. This …

The “Rare Earth” hypothesis—put forward by Ward and Brownlee in their 2000 book of the
same title—states that prokaryote-type organisms may be common in the universe but …

Gas chromatography (GC) is a separation technique commonly developed for targeted in
situ analyses in planetary space missions. It is coupled with low-resolution mass …