{"id":244289,"date":"2026-09-20T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/scientists-say-theyve-discovered-little-lab-zombies-seemingly-immortal-tissue-taken-from-sea-cucumbers"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:12:24","slug":"scientists-say-theyve-discovered-little-lab-zombies-seemingly-immortal-tissue-taken-from-sea-cucumbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/scientists-say-theyve-discovered-little-lab-zombies-seemingly-immortal-tissue-taken-from-sea-cucumbers","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say They\u2019ve Discovered \u2018Little Lab Zombies\u2019\u2014Seemingly Immortal Tissue Taken From Sea Cucumbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-theyve-discovered-little-lab-zombies-seemingly-immortal-tissue-taken-from-sea-cucumbers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> immortal tissue found in sea cucumbers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have stumbled upon what they\u2019ve dubbed real-life \u201czombies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These seemingly immortal things\u2014amputated tissue from the sea cucumber species <em>Psolus fabricii\u2014 <\/em>appear to exist in a gray zone of life. The discovery, described in a study published on May 27 in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeb1394\"><em>Science Advances<\/em><\/a>, could be useful for future research but also raises philosophical questions about what it means to be alive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/discover\/what-is-a-sea-cucumber.html\">Sea cucumbers<\/a> are an ancient type of spineless creature that sit on the ocean floor. They\u2019re known for their remarkable regenerative powers; some species can be split in half, after which the separated sides will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/welcome-to-the-weird-and-wondrous-world-of-sea-cucumbers-180986534\/\">regrow<\/a> their missing parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>face_with_colon_three immortal tissue found in sea cucumbers. Scientists have stumbled upon what they\u2019ve dubbed real-life \u201czombies.\u201d These seemingly immortal things\u2014amputated tissue from the sea cucumber species Psolus fabricii\u2014 appear to exist in a gray zone of life. The discovery, described in a study published on May 27 in the journal Science Advances, could be useful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}