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'Zombie' genes? Research shows some genes come to life in the brain after death
- dekhn 6y agoThis is what I'd expect. Even after death many bodies contain plenty of ATP and a pool of enzymes sufficient to carry out subsets of metabolism and growth. Carrying that further, if you have all the apparatus to make a protein from DNA, you could get more protein expression. However, all of this would be completely local and uncoordinated, I think.
- jhbadger 6y agoExactly. Human cells are living units in themselves, and so will continue to function for a while after the death of the organism. It doesn't mean that this activity has a "purpose" (to the degree that we can say any biological activity has a "purpose", which is to say only metaphorically).