Finally, a use for baby rats

Posted on October 15, 2008
Filed Under Zombies | |

Folks, it’s October, and besides German beer, baseball playoffs and breast cancer awareness, this month means one thing: Halloween. And with Halloween come the usual stories about spooky stuff, but let us not forget about zombies, who are real and in fact, quite scary.

Reanimation is something we see in zombies. Some say it is caused by a virus, some say it is the fact that Hell is full. One thing is for certain: we are getting closer and closer to creating our own reanimated corpse, no Frankenstein needed.

Using cells from newborn rats (really), scientists have been able to restart a heart that had stopped working, presumably killing its owner. This means that one of the major organs we have to get working again in order to create an army of undead minions has just been added to the list.

If these refurbished hearts are made available to the public, we know someone who could use one.

Written by Bryan McBournie