The Interdisciplinary Forensic and Biomedical Sciences Lab (ForenBioS) focuses on the use of biochemical techniques for forensic science applications, such as age-at-death estimation, post-mortem interval determination to establish how long ago a person died, body fluid identification and DNA extraction from tough substrates, with implications in biomedical sciences and cell biology. Current research projects include the development of the first epigenetic clock in tooth tissues to understand tooth aging; improvements to facial approximation by a combination of anthropological findings; DNA phenotyping and digital facial reconstruction; the development of a predictive model for post-mortem interval estimation based on metagenomics (the analysis of bacterial genetic material), and transcriptomics (the analysis of gene expression), and the identification of specific markers to detect sweat at crime scenes as a source of DNA.

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