Team of scientists from Illinois University in Chicago (UIC) revealed “Zombie Genes”, arising in the brain of people a few hours after their death. Then they begin to grow and increase to gigantic sizes, writes Daily Mail.
It is noted that they are called glial cells. With the help of “long-old” appendages they grow for a long time after the death of a person. Peak changes caused such cells, scientists noted on the 12th hour after death.
At the same time, they studied two other types of brain cells, which become inactive after the death of a person. They occupy about 80 percent of all brain cells.
“Researchers must take into account these genetic and cellular changes and reduce the posthumous interval as much as possible to reduce the scale of these changes,” the doctor Jeffrey Lebo explained to Dr. Jeffrey Leb, Professor of the University of John Garvin and the head of the neurology and rehabilitation department in the UIC Medical College.
In 2020, the scientists of the Virginia Polytechnic University found unusual genes in a group of giant viruses, which are comparable to bacteria. These genes allow viruses to rebuild the metabolism of the host cell, turning it into the similar zombie.