Canada’s first ‘body farm’ to open in Quebec — and people are already signing up to be donorsnationalpost.com - Sharon Kirkey When people ask what will happen to their corpses if they’re donated to a “body farm” for research, Dr. Shari Forbes provides them with as much, or …
The impact of trauma and blood loss on human decomposition. - PubMednih.gov - Cockle DL and Bell LS 1Department of Archaeology, Centre for Forensic Research, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. Electronic …
EXCLUSIVE: UK to open first ‘body farm’ for forensic researchnature.com - David Adam Sites that allow the study of human remains have long existed in the United States and have started to appear recently in other countries. Forensic …
The Body Farm Asks: Why Do Some Rot, But Others Mummify?forensicmag.com - lfrench NewsThe post-mortem interval continues to be a scientific riddle. But the famed “Body Farm” of the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of …
Witness: We found a live rat inside a dead body at Philly morguephillyvoice.com - Brian Hickey Less than two weeks ago, witnesses reported that a live rat was found inside a dead body at the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office. The story is …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Thanatometabolomics: introducing NMR-based metabolomics to identify metabolic biomarkers of the time of death. - PubMednih.gov - Mora-Ortiz M , et al. Death is the permanent cessation of the critical functions of the organism as a whole. However, the shutdown of a complex biological organism does …
Comprehensive Postmortem Analyses of Intestinal Microbiota Changes and Bacterial Translocation in Human Flora Associatedplos.org Postmortem microbiological examinations are performed in forensic and medical pathology for defining uncertain causes of deaths and for screening of …
An interdisciplinary review of the thanatomicrobiome in human decompositionspringer.com Ford WW. On the bacteriology of normal organs. Epidemiol Infect. 1901;1:277–84.Google Scholar Gevers W. Biochemical aspects of cell death. Forensic …
How a 3-Ton Mess of Dead Pigs Transformed This LandscapeNational Geographic - Christie WilcoxThe unusual ecological experiment took place in Mississippi, and the scientists were awed by the results—especially the rivers of maggots. In nature, mass mortality sometimes happens. More than 200,000
Interview with Forensic Taphonomist Professor Shari Forbeslocardslab.com - by Locard's Lab What is your current job role and what does this entail? I am a Canada 150 Research Chair in Forensic Thanatology and the Director of the Secure Site …
postmortemuga.edu - Paige Carmichael The white lenses seen in these eyes are an artifact of cold, but not algor mortis. When an animal is placed in a cold room or cooler, the lenses …
Beetle juice turns corpses into cozy nurseries—here's howNational Geographic - Carrie ArnoldAnalysis of bodies tended by burying beetles reveals that they are coated in very particular preservative fluids. Like many parents around the world, burying beetles provide a cozy nursery for their offspring.
98.6 Degrees Is a Normal Body Temperature, Right? Not QuiteWIRED - Michele Cohen Marill You wake up at 6 am feeling achy and chilled. Unsure if you’re sick or just sleep-deprived, you reach for a thermometer. It beeps at 99°F, so you …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The thanatotranscriptome: Gene expression of male reproductive organs after death.nih.gov - Tolbert M , et al. 1Forensic Science Program, Physical Sciences Department, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL, USA.2Physical Sciences Department, Alabama State …
Mummified Human Corpse Filled With Bees, Wasps and a Squirrel Discovered Hanging From Treenewsweek.com The partially mummified body of a man has provided an unusual home for a motley crew of woodland creatures. Scientists discovered wasps, honeybees …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Reconsideration of bone postmortem interval estimation by UV-induced autofluorescence.nih.gov - Hoke N , et al. Assessing the UV-fluorescence of a freshly cut cross section of the compact parts of a bone is often recommended as a first step to estimate the …
Play button After you die, some things in your body keep on ticking, this video revealssciencemag.org - Sarah Crespi When you’re dead, you’re dead—right? No pulse, no brain activity, no signs of life. But at the cellular level, things can still be ticking right …
Decomposition: An Easter StoryThe New York Times - By EUGENIA BONEI’m in the odd position of being someone who loves detritivores, that is, things that eat the dead. Believe me, it’s not an easy sell at a dinner party. Usually when I reveal my interest, people recoil.
Chemicals Dogs Can Detect Dead Bodies Better than Any MachineGizmodo - Kiona Smith-Strickland If you’re a detective who needs to find a corpse, there are lots of ways to look: you can comb the woods in a line search or hunt for hidden graves …
species of insectwikipedia.org - Contributors to Wikimedia projects • Lucilia terraenovae Macquart [1]• Musca groenlandica Zetterstedt [1]• Phormia terraenovae Robineau-Desvoidy [1]• Musca orior Harris [2]• Protophormia orior …
Learning about decomposition at the body farm in San Marcoshoustonchronicle.com - Keri Blakinger SAN MARCOS - Daniel Wescott spends his days surrounded by death - skeletons on shelves, leathery corpses in the grass and rotund bodies rotting under …
Microbiology of deathcell.com - Jessica L. Metcalf When a mammal dies, what happens? Decomposition happens. When a mammal dies its immune system shuts down, internal temperatures change, and internal …
Our discovery of how humans experience the smell of death may one day help save livesThe Conversation UK - Jean-Christophe Nebel And the sky was watching that superb cadaver Blossom like a flower. So frightful was the stench that you believed You’d faint away upon the grass. The …
Genes remain active after deathBBC News - Jonathan BallThat's according to a scientific study published in Nature Communications. Analysing post-mortem samples, an international team of scientists showed that some genes became more active after death. As as
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Genes could record forensic clues to time of deathsciencenews.org - Erika Engelhaupt Scientists have found predictable patterns in the way our genetic machinery winds down after death.
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo #15 - Body Farms (with Anna Williams)on-soap.com - Version 3.0
A death-defying dig at the grave of a serial killerphillyvoice.com - By Frank Burgos PhillyVoice Staff In excavating the remains of a serial killer, certain considerations come into play. In the case of this past spring's exhumation of the notorious …
