READ: Scientists Engineer Biobots That Exist in a “Third State” Beyond Life and Death

What if science could bridge the gap between life and death, creating organisms that don’t fully belong to either state? It may sound like the premise of a zombie movie, but researchers have taken a step into this eerie middle ground by developing a “third state” of existence. These engineered organisms, described in a study published in the journal Physiology, are neither entirely alive nor entirely dead—but something altogether new.