Common Ground between Biological Rhythms and Forensics.

ABSTRACT: Biological clocks set the timing for a large number of essential processes in the living human organism. After death, scientific evidence is required in forensic investigations in order to collect as much information as possible on the death circumstances and personal identifiers of the deceased victim. We summarize the associations between the molecular mechanisms of biological rhythms and forensically relevant aspects, including post-mortem interval and cause of death, entomological findings, sex, age, ethnicity and development. Given their importance during lifetime, biological rhythms could be potential tools to draw conclusions on the death circumstances and the identity of a deceased person by mechanistic investigations of the different biological clocks in a forensic context. This r

SUBMITTER: Janjic K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9312156 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature