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 ...

A multidisciplinary team -- engineers, soil scientists, and biologists -- digs in with them for a deeper look at what happens to the soil underneath a decomposing body. Forensic researchers at UT ...

Body farms are facilities where corpses are placed in a variety of environments and scenarios to study how they decompose. This research can help forensic scientists and police figure out what has ...

Extrinsic and intrinsic factors contribute to how human bodies decompose Microbial decomposers in the soil play an important role Researchers at the University of Tennessee’s “Body Farm” have been ...

Research at body farms—research facilities dedicated to studying what happens to human bodies after death—supplies law enforcement with valuable information about the process of decomposition in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microbes that lurk in decomposing human corpses could help forensic detectives establish a person ...

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Researchers investigated how the process of human body decomposition affected microbial life of the surrounding soil microbiome. One factor that may play an important role is body mass index (BMI), ...

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 Feb. 12 in the journal Nature Microbiology ...