An evolutionarily conserved machinery exists for engulfment of apoptotic cells from worm to mammals. New observations suggest that corpse clearance is tightly linked to apoptosis and that dying cells use both recruitment and eat-me signals for phagocyte attraction and recognition.

Vampirism has been a component of Central European and Balkan folklore since the Middle Ages and was often believed to be responsible for the transmission of serious infectious diseases such as plague and tuberculosis/consumption. Vampirism was believed to be spread within the same family or village and if the rite of the so-called second burial after death was not performed. The practice of "s...

In general, objects in air transportation are passengers, baggage, cargo, and/or post. However, its development, the existing also carries out of corpses. If it is related to responsibility carrier, then position corpse transport important be studied order determine form and limits carrier's responsibility. Therefore, this study aims discuss law transportation, as well carrier transporting by a...

Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to achieve, due to the absence of blood and/or urine. In this study, morphine and phenobarbital were simultaneously identified and assayed in several tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the fly larvae of Calliphoridae found on the corpse.

human shape. But upon the middle of the body a fire of coals was smouldering; the flesh had been burnt through. The man was dead, but the smoke of his torment mounted still, a black vapour." In detective fiction, W H Auden said, the corpse must shock "not only because it is a corpse, but also because, even for a corpse, it is shockingly out of place, as when a dog makes a mess on a drawing-room...

In this article, the authors consider issues of using coal as one main sources thermal energy when hiding criminal corpses by burning. It has been established that it is impossible to reproduce conditions a crematorium under domestic conditions, and therefore, in order destroy corpse, needs access heat source on an industrial scale. Most often, criminals use boiler stoker stoves hide or corpse ...