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Solving Crimes with the Necrobiome

We can’t talk to the dead, but in their own way, the dead can speak to us.

Aired 04/03/2018

FromDigital Studios

I Contain Multitudes

Solving Crimes with the Necrobiome

Episode 11 | 7m 10sVideo has Closed Captions

We can’t talk to the dead, but in their own way, the dead can speak to us.

We can’t talk to the dead, but in their own way, the dead can speak to us. Death and decomposition is the beginning of new life for the many microbes that take over our bodies after we die: an environment known as the “necrobiome.”

Aired 04/03/2018

FromDigital Studios

I Contain Multitudes

Solving Crimes with the Necrobiome

Episode 11 | 7m 10sVideo has Closed Captions

We can’t talk to the dead, but in their own way, the dead can speak to us. Death and decomposition is the beginning of new life for the many microbes that take over our bodies after we die: an environment known as the “necrobiome.”

Aired 04/03/2018

FromDigital Studios

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