Metabolomics in Forensic Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

Providing scientific evidence in forensic casework has always been challenging due to rigorous legal criteria. Over the last decade, metabolomics has been increasingly applied to investigate several conditions of forensic interest. The potential of metabolomics in forensics resides in the possibility of investigating endogenous and exogenous molecules present in a large variety of biological specimens by means of NMR spectroscopy and Gas Chromatography (GC) or Liquid Chromatography (LC) combined with Mass or Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MS or MS/MS). This Special Issue of Metabolites, “Metabolomics in Forensic Sciences”, will be devoted to the collection of both original research and review articles dealing with the investigation of specific metabolic profiles and peculiar ante-mortem and post-mortem biomarkers related to different conditions of forensic concern. The topics that will be covered include, but are not limited to, the identification of biological traces, post-mortem metabolomic profile modifications for estimating the time since death, the identification of the cause of death, and exposure to drugs of abuse, with particular attention paid to the modification of endogenous metabolomic profiles related to their acute or chronic intake. Studies performed on humans, animal models, and cell cultures are welcomed.

Dr. Emanuela Locci
Guest Editor

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