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[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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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

Telegraphy was nearly instantaneous, but it required skilled operators at each end of the line to encode and decode the message, effectively slowing transmission.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

"For the first time, we found that astrocytes encode and maintain neural fear signaling," Halladay said.

From Science Daily Apr. 4, 2026

Since 2019, Microsoft's Silica project has been trying to encode data on glass plates, in a throwback to the early days of photography, when negatives were also stored on glass.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

To encode a message, you first convert the message from words to the corresponding five-digit numbers from the codebook.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

“But what helps our scientists is that it encodes information very, very broadly.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Most of the viral genome contains instructions for structural proteins, but it also encodes several specialized proteins required for replication.

From Science Daily May 13, 2026

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

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

"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

A model can’t be jailbroken into revealing dangerous knowledge if its weights haven’t encoded that knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Because the detector signals are noisy and highly encoded, the AI learns the complicated relationship between those signals and the actual spectrum of light.

From Science Daily May 26, 2026

Like traditional computers whose basic information is encoded by bits, quantum computers rely on quantum bits.

From Barron's Mar. 26, 2026

Does each termite possess a fragment of blueprint, or is the whole design, arch by arch, encoded in his DNA?

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Jargon, while efficiently encoding this knowledge, adds a safety buffer.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

This identified a three-gene control hub, LypABC, encoding bacterial proteins.

From Science Daily Apr. 17, 2026

Memory consolidates through a process called elaborative encoding.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

In their experiments, these structures reached a record 48 dimensions and included more than 17,000 distinct topological signatures, creating a vast new "alphabet" for encoding stable quantum information.

From Science Daily Mar. 21, 2026

Power was broadcasting in the clear, rather than encoding his message.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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