'Undead' genes come alive days after death

Friday, July 1, 2016 - 08:51 in Biology & Nature

Researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle, have discovered that genes in animals remain 'turned on' days after death, possibly opening the door to new and better ways for preserving donated organs for transplantation and more accurate methods of determining when murder victims were killed.

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