A team of US researchers has discovered a number of "zombie genes" that come alive in the cells several days after a person dies, electronic library These genes can't bring a person back to life, but this discovery has serious implications for forensics and organ donor recipients. "For us, this experiment was a chance to satisfy our scientific curiosity and find out what happens when we die. The main conclusion of our study - it showed that we can learn a lot about how life works, studying death," said Peter Noble from the University of Washington in Seattle. Studying the cells of mice and fish-zebras, killed by lethal doses of poison, Noble and his colleagues determined that there exist several such geneses in the body of humans and animals that start functioning only after their owner is dead. It appeared that the majority of these zombie genes were not random in terms of function. Some of those that had sprung back to life actually tried to "revive" the body by enhancing the immune