Can a bone still tell the story of a smoker, centuries after their death? Yes, according to a new British study.

Yet it has been notoriously difficult to extract useful information from burned bones because fire dramatically changes their chemical nature ... fossilized bone, the composition of which might ...

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“The whole chemical picture provides ... to work with these unique and precious human remains to learn more about life for sailors in the 16th century while finding out more about changes to bone ...

The products include natural bone implants ... of this marine-derived material on human organism," says Dr. Palaveniene, researcher at KTU Faculty of Chemical Technology. "In cuttlebone, calcium ...

Researchers examined human skeletal remains from periods before ... Tobacco affects cortical bone by leaving distinct molecular traces. Chemical changes are visible in the composition of this bone, ...