The thanatotranscriptome denotes (in the fields of biochemistry, microbiology and biophysics of thanatology and in particular forensic) all RNA from the transcript of the part of genome still active or awakened in the internal organs of a dead body for 24 to 48 hours following the time of the death. · (It was recently shown that in these 48 hours, some genes continue to be expressed in cells, producing the mRNA and that certain genes are expressed again that had been inhibited since the end of fetal development)