For the first time, researchers have identified what appears to be a network of approximately 20 microbes that universally drive the decomposition of animal flesh. The findings have significant ...
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Establishing a precise time of death (the postmortem interval, or PMI) upon discovery of a corpse is notoriously challenging, however easy fictional medical examiners might make it seem. Some forensic ...
Microbes that lurk in decomposing human corpses could help forensic detectives establish a person's time of death, a new study finds. The research, published Monday (Feb. 12) in the journal Nature ...
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Establishing when a person died based on their decomposing body is a subjective problem with dozens of variables, so any two pathologists can arrive at different estimates. Now, researchers are ...
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