{"id":6859,"date":"2024-03-08T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/?p=6859"},"modified":"2024-03-18T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T21:26:11","slug":"teeth-tell-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/teeth-tell-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Teeth tell time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pete Mendoza<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-08-at-11.36.07-AM-1024x647.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-08-at-11.36.07-AM-1024x647.png 1024w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-08-at-11.36.07-AM-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-08-at-11.36.07-AM-768x485.png 768w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-08-at-11.36.07-AM.png 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo Courtesy \/ Carina Marques<br>Photo of Carina Marques, a UTRGV assistant professor of anthropology and School of Integrative Biological and Chemical Sciences.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Forensic-Final_mixdown.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">UTRGV received a $467,325 grant from the National Institute of Justice for a forensic science project aimed to use artificial intelligence to assist in identifying the age at death of a body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carina Marques, a UTRGV assistant professor of anthropology and School of Integrative Biological and Chemical Sciences, said anthropologists assist law enforcement agents and forensic pathologists when skeletal remains are recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p> \u201cOne of our roles as a biological anthropologist is to try to identify that person,\u201d Marques said. \u201cWe start often by wanting to know the age of the person, sex estimation, high population affinity, which would help us to kind of narrow down the potential matches and figure out who that person was.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She said as of the moment, the methods used to identify a body do not provide accurate data because people tend to age differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marques said the project will be using the cementum of the tooth to give a more accurate age at death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cIn our tooth, the cementum accumulates yearly like a tree ring,\u201d she said. \u201cThe tree rings that you count, rings to know the age of the tree, it\u2019s almost the same.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She said it is difficult to use this method of identification because of human error. However, the project will use an AI software to precisely obtain the analysis of the cementum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interdisciplinary studies graduate student Olga Ibarra-Sanchez said her part of the research will involve the season of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cSo, the season of death is looking at the outer layer of the cementum in the teeth and that will help kind of create a applicability of dental cementum to estimate whether the season of death was in the fall or winter or in the spring,\u201d Ibarra-Sanchez said.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts from other parts of the world will collaborate with UTRGV students, faculty and technicians to ensure the success of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marques said she is thrilled to be working on such a great project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p> \u201cI\u2019m really enthusiastic about developing this area of biological and forensic anthropology here at UTRGV,\u201d Marques said.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on the project, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/nij.ojp.gov\">The National Institute of Justice website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Pete Mendoza for Vaquero Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Mendoza UTRGV received a $467,325 grant from the National Institute of Justice for a forensic science project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":6860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[606,44,194,42,26],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic","tag-606","tag-news","tag-spring","tag-students","tag-utrgv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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