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I Contain Multitudes
Solving Crimes with the Necrobiome
Season 1
Episode 11
We can’t talk to the dead, but in their own way, the dead can speak to us. Death and decomposition is the beginning of new life for the many microbes that take over our bodies after we die: an environment known as the “necrobiome.”
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