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News|Articles|September 21, 2026
Using UHPLC-MS/MS to Help Pinpoint Time of Death
Author(s)Akina Nara, John Chasse
LCGC International spoke to Akina Nara of Japan’s Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University about a new study which links a blood compound to how long a body has been dead.
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Figuring out when someone died is not as simple as the movies make it look. Currently, medical examiners must piece together a mix of clues, body condition, organ tissue samples, blood work, and other laboratory tests to try to nail down both how and when a person died. But there is one piece of that puzzle that's always been tricky: estimating how much time has passed since death, known as the postmortem interval (PMI).
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