DNA methylation and epigenomic profiling post-mortem of human remain analogs (Sus scrofa) in southern Ontario, Canada. [PDF]
J Forensic SciAbstract Understanding the dynamics of DNA methylation (DNAm) post‐mortem could support forensic applications, particularly the estimation of the post‐mortem interval (PMI), age, and sex of remains. In this study, we investigated DNAm changes in pig carcasses (Sus scrofa) as analogs for human decomposition, while measuring the progression of decay ...
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Drying the mystery: a novel electronic sensor to quantify soft-tissue desiccation and natural mummification for forensic taphonomy [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis study investigates the desiccation process of soft-tissue in South Africa, analyzing its interaction with environmental parameters and its implications for estimating the post-mortem interval.
Kara S. Adams +3 more
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Next generation forensic taphonomy: Automation for experimental, field-based research
Forensic Science International, 2023 Determining the post-mortem interval (PMI) is often a critical goal in forensic casework. Consequently, the discipline of forensic taphonomy has involved considerable research efforts towards achieving this goal, with substantial strides made in the past 40 years.
Justin Pead +2 more
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An Investigation of patterns of mammalian scavenging in relation to vertebrate skeletal remains in a Northwestern European context: forensic applications. [PDF]
, 2013 Mammalian scavenging, disarticulating, scattering and removal of human remains can alter and obscure both soft tissue and skeletal remains which are essential to making interpretations and identifications during forensic investigations.
Young, Alexandria
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Advancing time-since-interval estimation for clandestine graves: a forensic ecogenomics perspective into burial and translocation timelines using massively parallel sequencing [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyForensic taphonomy and entomology has focused on estimating the post-mortem interval (PMI), particularly for surface depositions, using human cadavers and other mammalian models by considering morphological changes of the body and insect activity during ...
Cherene de Bruyn +9 more
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Decomposing in the dark. Experimental approaches to funerary archaeoentomology in volcanic caves [PDF]
Forensic Science International: SynergyThis experimental study explores entomological succession in mortuary contexts in caves, using the funeral practices of the indigenous populations of the Canary Islands as a model.
Pedro Henríquez-Valido +6 more
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Research Progress on the Determination of Electrical Conductivity in Forensic Science [PDF]
Fayixue Zazhi, 2020 Electrical conductivity （EC） is an important physical and chemical index in electrochemical analysis. In recent years, with the penetration and reference of transformation medicine and interdisciplinary theory and technology in the forensic field, new ...
LI Yong-lin1, XIA Zhi-yuan2, ZHENG Zhe1, et al
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Dating Death: Forensic taphonomy and the postmortem interval [PDF]
, 2010 Determining the postmortem interval (PMI) remains one of the most important but challenging factors to establish in a suspicious death investigation. Unfortunately, as time passes current methods lose accuracy and only allow investigators to approximate ...
Rogers, Christopher
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Taphonomical investigation applied to clandestine graves
Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti : Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, 2023 Taphonomy originates as a branch of palaeontology addressed to the study of processes occurring from the pre-agonic stages of an organism to the recovery of the fossilized palaeontological record.
Antonella Cinzia Marra
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FORENSIC MEDICINE AND FORENSIC TAPHONOMY
Perspectivas em medicina legal e pericias medicas, 2023 Introduction: Taphonomy is a term that comes to be inserted into the study of transformative phenomena to designate the study of the transition of biological remains from death to fossilization. This article aims to elucidate the concept, scope and importance of this study for legal medicine.
Gabriel Castro +5 more
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