Thanks to Giant Freakin Robot for the info.  And this is true!

The zombie apocalypse is coming soon!  An American team of biology researchers has recently created “zombie” cells that can outperform natural living cells.  The technique used took mammalian cells and coated them with silica, which created a near-perfect replica.

According to the Huffington Post, the Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico biology laboratories created “zombie-like” cells that can survive at greater temperatures and pressures than the original cells when they were alive.  The biological researchers coated living cells with silicic acid in a petri dish, which embalmed or mummified the organic material down to its nanometer structure or level.  The technique also created permeable armor around the zombie cell to protect it from real-world conditions.