How a corpse's "microbiome" can help scientists nail down time of death
Briefly

"One of the principal questions of any death investigation is 'when did this person die?'" said Nancy La Vigne, director of the National Institute of Justice.
"Those dining times relate to the stages of decomposition that a body undergoes-from fresh meat to bloated carcass, to rupturing and seeping nitrogen-rich fluids to actively decaying, then to an eventual dry state," as reported by Beth Mole for Ars.
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