Alien message embedded in our genetic code?

human genetic code is embedded with a 'designer label' that may be indelible stamp of a master extraterrestrial civilisation.

The answer to whether alien life exists may be hiding inside our own body!

According to a new theory,human genetic code is embedded with a 8220;designer label8221; that may be an indelible stamp of a master extraterrestrial civilisation that preceded us by many millions or billions of years.

Researchers Vladimir I shCherbak of al-Farabi Kazakh National University of Kazakhstan,and Maxim A Makukov of the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute,hypothesise that an intelligent signal embedded in our genetic code would be a mathematical and semantic message that cannot be accounted for by Darwinian evolution.

Calling it 8220;biological SETI8221;,shCherbak and Makukov argue that the scheme has much greater longevity and chance of detecting alien life than a transient extraterrestrial radio transmission,the 8216;Discovery News8217; reported.

8220;Once fixed,the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales,in fact,it is the most durable construct known. Therefore it represents an exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature.

8220;Once the genome is appropriately rewritten the new code with a signature will stay frozen in the cell and its progeny,which might then be delivered through space and time,8221; the researchers wrote in the journal Icarus.

They said in order to pass the designer label test,any patterns in the genetic code must be highly statistically significant and possess intelligent-like features that are inconsistent with any natural know process.

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Researchers said their detailed analysis of the human genome displays a thorough precision-type orderliness in the mapping between DNA8217;s nucleotides and amino acids.

8220;Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language,8221; said researchers.

The scheme includes the use of decimal notation,logical transformations,and the use of the abstract symbol of zero.

8220;Accurate and systematic,these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing,8221; researchers wrote.

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This interpretation leads to a far-fetched conclusion that the genetic code,8221;appears that it was invented outside the solar system already several billions years ago,8221; endorsing the idea of panspermia 8211; that Earth was seeded with interstellar life.