
Darshil Patel
Assistant Professor of Forensic Science at University of North Dakota; forensic chemistry researcher specializing in volatile organic compounds and human decomposition
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Jun 9, 2026
Episode 64: The Chemistry of Human Decomposition: GC×GC, Body Farms, and Forensic Science
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Darshil PatelGUEST
Human, human taphonomic facility are basically, they're colloquially called as, like, body farms.

Darshil PatelGUEST
So here we kind of study the human decomposition or in an outdoor environment.

Darshil PatelGUEST
We do research on different, I would say, different areas within forensic taphonomy.

Darshil PatelGUEST
So you have the forensic taphonomy, uh, it's- itself is a process of understanding death and the process that kind of allows us to determine the cause of death, the nature, what happens to the remains after post-mortem period or, or during the post-mortem period.
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12:57David OlivaHOST
I think you did a great job discussing some of the, the general reasons that, that they exist.