Bacteria as a Measurement of Post-Mortem Interval
Body temperature and the presence of insects have been used as determinants of the amount of time that a body has been lifeless for years, but Sybil Bucheli and Aaron Lynne think that bacteria can be looked at in place of these. By studying and understanding certain bacteria already present in the human body, they believe that detecting changes over time in these known bacteria can be useful in application as a forensic tool to determine the time of death or post-mortem interval.
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[Abstract written by Walter Tates, ForensIQ Intern, 031213]