Challenges and prospects for the application of skin microbiome to forensic individual identification: A narrative review
Published online on September 18, 2025
Abstract
Medicine, Science and the Law, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 142-154, April 2026.
The microbiome has been at the center of a cross-section of disciplines with a wide range of applications and research methodologies, the impact of which is also reflected in forensic science. The skin microbiome is considered a “microbial fingerprint” ...
The microbiome has been at the center of a cross-section of disciplines with a wide range of applications and research methodologies, the impact of which is also reflected in forensic science. The skin microbiome is considered a “microbial fingerprint” ...