Bacteria can survive starvation in zombie mode
(PHYSorg.com Biology)

Bacteria that are exposed to a hostile environment, for example with antibiotics or very few nutrients, can sometimes survive by `going to sleep.` Biologists from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have discovered an unknown, alternative survival strategy: a kind of zombie mode, in which the bacteria do not sleep, but slow down extremely. Their discovery has been published in the journal Nature Communications.