Experts have discovered, after a person dies, there are certain genes that actually kick into life and fight to bring the person back from death.

New research suggests that gene expression – when information in DNA is used for instructions to create molecules such as proteins – increases in certain genes as they attempt to essentially resuscitate the host.

The study monitored zebrafish and mice, but the experts believe that this phenomena occurs in humans too.

Senior author Peter Noble of the University of Washington and Alabama State University told Seeker: "Not all cells are 'dead' when an organism dies.