TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORENSIC MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF THE TIME SINCE DEATH

Determining the exact time of death is a very important and signifi cant issue of forensic medical science and practice. Since traditional, routine techniques have many shortcomings and do not provide suffi cient accuracy in determining the postmortem interval, it is necessary to fi nd new ways and methods to solve this problem. The article presents an analysis of the state and trends in the development of tools and technologies of forensic science and practice used to accurately determine the time since death. The analysis of the scientifi c literature showed that, despite numerous and diverse studies aimed at determining the age of death, a large number of them have not found wide practical application. Thus, the search for new scientifi cally sound criteria is promising, based on chronological changes in biomarkers after death using modern technologies that will establish the time since death in the early and late post-mortem period.