encode
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Some of these regions were once considered nonfunctional, but researchers have discovered that they can encode biologically active molecules.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
There are critical differences between artificial and biological neural networks, but both are nonlinear distributed networks that learn to encode representations relevant to their goals and act on them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Some AI companies are now trying to encode human values into their products.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Cohen found MOTS-c by combing through the 97% of human DNA that doesn’t encode for genes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Instead of trying to measure the area inside a parabola as the Greeks did, early algebraists sought to find the solutions to equations that encode relationships between different numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Understanding how an animal brain encodes memories and the emotional responses they evoke could lead to better cognitive therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
Watson was 25 when he and English biophysicist Francis Crick figured out the double-helix structure of DNA that encodes the essential information for life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Among these 53 genes, one encodes a protein called girdin.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025
But when the researchers looked at Arhgap36’s genetic sequence in orange cats, they didn’t find any mutations in the DNA that encodes the Arhgap36 protein.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024
The fact that the genome also encodes genes to repair damage to the genome was discovered by several geneticists, including Evelyn Witkin and Steve Elledge.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Trauma can affect how memories are encoded and recalled.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
To build the simulation, the researchers encoded a string breaking model into a chain of 13 trapped ions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Those mutation targets are encoded into mRNA and manufactured into a vaccine—a process that takes about six weeks from the date of the biopsy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"The significance extends far beyond phages – it suggests that genome language models are beginning to learn the design principles encoded by evolution, opening the door to AI-assisted genome writing."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher of the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a Lacedemonian military code.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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This would slow down the encoding and decoding that constantly occurs in our online interactions, but it wouldn’t make things unusable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
By encoding information into different twisting and spinning patterns, researchers may be able to increase the amount of data carried by individual light beams.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
There are also philosophical challenges: before encoding human values into bots, AI firms have to first choose which values they actually want.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Jargon, while efficiently encoding this knowledge, adds a safety buffer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
The pullover cost me four sets of wireless code—the full lot of encoding poems, passwords, and frequencies.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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