28 Mar 2015

Necrobiome

From This Way Up, 1:40 pm on 28 March 2015

The emerging study of the necrobiome; that's the community of bacteria that live on and in us after we die. It could be another useful tool for forensic scientists trying to solve crimes.

Jeff Tomberlin is a forensic entomologist at Texas A&M University who's studying the bacteria.

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