"Preferably they would be educated since before the outbreak in the areas of medicine, psychology, biology, etc. They would make progress by classic scientific research. For example: you have a test group of zombies and, lets say, you are going to inject a substance in them because your aim is to make them slower or whatever. To make it scientific you will need a test group that is not injected or injected with placebo. That makes the results scientifically proved (to simplify it a bit). They could also study the virus (if it will be a virus) to decide what kind it is.

They would probably be of great importance to all survivors. The concept is to know your enemy and to be able to foresee what reaction from them will be like if this or that happen. They probably would need not that much except test facilities, notebooks (the old fashioned kind), food and specimen.

Lab hours would be dangerous, but the more they would learn the less dangerous. The environment needs to be controlled, with guards and vault doors etc.

Pro zed groups would not be tolerated. Maybe such people could come in handy in the experiments though. Like in the search for a cure you will need specimen that are not too damaged in the physique."

"You need zeds to study so you can’t study them before the outbreak because once you have one to study you have the outbreak. It’s kind of a catch 22. I agree there would be a need to study them like in the movie when they had the scientist in the bunker with the soldiers (can’t remember the name-not any of the mall ones) they used to keep the Zs in a tunnel and called the head researcher Frankenstein. He had the one Z on a chain named Bubb. However, as the movie said a cure would be useless maybe a vaccination would be OK but that would only work if the Zs didn’t rip you apart. You would need to introduce a virus that attacked whatever it was that made the Zs but left the rest of us alone. "