‘Third state’ sees cells gaining new capabilities that they didn’t have in death
In sci-fi films such as ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Re-Animator’, human bodies are brought back to life, existing in a freakish condition between life and death.
While this sounds like the stuff of fantasy, a new study says a ‘third state’ of existence really does exist in modern biology.
According to the researchers, the third state is where the cells of a dead organism continue to function after the organism’s death.
Amazingly, after the organism’s demise, its cells are gaining new capabilities that they did not possess in life, the biologists say.
If more experiments with the cells from dead animals – including humans – show they can enter the third state, they could ‘redefine legal death’
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