Advances in Post-Mortem Toxicology
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Toxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 4908
Special Issue Editor
Interests: forensic and clinical pathology; autopsy; forensic toxicology; forensic entomology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will present the progress made in post-mortem toxicology and current research directions in this field. Contemporary toxicology is developing dynamically and multi-directionally. It collaborates with other fields of science, such as analytical and forensic chemistry, clinical and experimental toxicology, forensic medicine, and genetics, with particular emphasis on pharmaco- and toxicogenetics. It is worth highlighting areas of interest such as the search for new alternative materials for toxicological testing; the diagnosis of poisoning with new psychoactive substances, including fatal poisonings with opioids and other drugs; the diagnosis of suicide using inorganic compounds; the continuous development of analytical methods; the use of artificial intelligence; the use of molecular genetic testing; and the limits of reporting obtained test results and their proper interpretation, which is crucial for the proper functioning of the justice system.
Prof. Dr. Rafał Skowronek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- post-mortem toxicology
- fatal poisoning
- new psychoactive substances
- opioids
- analytical methods
- interpretation of test results
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