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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I’mChristopher Intagliata.
As soon as a person dies, decomposition begins. And the first visitors arrive. “Within five to 15 minutes of death, blowflies or other insects begin tocolonize the body.” Rabi Musah, an organicchemist at the University at Albany.
She says different species turn up at different stages of decomposition. “So because of that, depending upon what entomological evidence you find, you can learn something about whenthe person died in terms of the timing of the death.”
Flies don’t tend to stick around when disturbed—by detectives, for example. But they doleave behind eggs. The eggs are hard to tell apart by appearance alone, so forensicentomologists rear them until they hatch, a few weeks later—and they get a species ID and, with a little guesswork, a person’s time of death.
But Musah has come up with a less time–intensive approach: chemical analysis of the eggs. She and her team investigated that method by first harvesting flies with pig–liver traps stashedthroughout New York City. “So it turns out that it’s easy to hide pig livers in various parts ofManhattan. There’s a lot of foliage and whatnot, they are easy to hide, so no one knew.”
They collected the trapped flies and then chemically analyzed their eggs. And it turns out eachspecies of fly egg has a unique chemical fingerprint—enough to tell the bugs apart withoutraising the eggs to maturity. And in a useful twist, the technique uses eggs preserved inalcohol—eggs that wouldn’t be viable for rearing live insects anyway. The study is in thejournal Analytical Chemistry.
Musah and her colleague Jennifer Rosati are now testing the method on a real case. “And oncewe do that we will be publishing some case studies to illustrate that this is a method that canbe used, and hopefully eventually it’s something that will stand up in court.”
And something that could speed up detective work—or help revive a cold case.
Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science Science. I’m ChristopherIntagliata.
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