The Department of Energy reports that they have created "zombie cells" that can outperform their living counterparts. I am not making this up.
“Once we’ve used silica to stabilize the cellular structure, it can still carry out reactions and, more importantly, that reaction is stable enough to work at high temperatures. The method is also a means to take a soft, potentially valuable biological material and convert it to a fossil that will stay on our shelves indefinitely.”
Over at AmericaBlog, John Aravosis is... disquieted by this news:
So what they’re saying is, it’s going to be harder to kill the zombies with fire. And without outside intervention, the zombies can live forever.
And in maybe less disturbing news, Wesley Snipes, recently released from prison, is now releasing a ZOMBIE WESTERN he filmed way back in 2006: GalloWWalkers:
Seriously, I think we're all doomed.