It depends on the level of funding the work attracts. It could be as quick as a couple of years if we attract enough resources.

Melanie Bailey

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Fingerprints are so quick compared with urine or blood or even saliva. You can put a fingerprint down in a couple of seconds, and our method of analysis is so quick - it literally takes two minutes to analyze a fingerprint sample.

We would like to get funding to make this technology more portable using miniature mass spectrometers. We are also working on a quantitative method.