One Tooth, Six Clues to a Person’s Identity (IMAGE)

Institute of Science Tokyo

One Tooth, Six Clues to a Person’s Identity

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Integrated analysis of different parts of a single tooth enabled the researchers to extract six types of forensic information: birth year, age at death, dietary and regional background, drug exposure, biological sex, and DNA profile.

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Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

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