encode
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Scientists there analyze it to identify genetic mutations unique to that patient’s cancer, encode them into an mRNA vaccine and return the vaccine to New York in about nine weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
"For the first time, we found that astrocytes encode and maintain neural fear signaling," Halladay said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2026
Now, the Surge doesn’t think it would be that much effort to encode those promises into law, to be extra careful.
From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2026
Qubits, meanwhile, are the basic units of information that encode data in a quantum machine, analogous to bits in traditional computers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
These units encode messages to build proteins—and the messages and proteins, in turn, enable the form and function of a living organism.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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These particles carry both mRNA that encodes cancer-recognition information and an immune-boosting compound that stimulates immune activity.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 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
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
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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Rather than isolating individual colors directly, the detectors collect encoded signals that contain hidden spectral information.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
“Up to that point, the highest number of encoded qubits anyone has done any experiments with was two or three, and they jumped straight to 48,” Fitzsimons explained.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Like traditional computers whose basic information is encoded by bits, quantum computers rely on quantum bits.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
"A key finding was that these two independent groups of neurons encoded content and context together and most reliably when the patients solved the task correctly," says Bausch.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 2026
Units of hereditary information, encoded in DNA and packaged on chromosomes, are transmitted through sperm and egg into an embryo, and from the embryo to every living cell in an organism’s body.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Accordingly, he discerns that much of what passes for “AI alignment” is, in practice, a small number of San Francisco labs encoding their idiosyncratic values into systems that now shape billions of lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
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
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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