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
The findings represented the first reported example of a genetic code in which both TAA and TAG had been reassigned to encode two different amino acids.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 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
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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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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Called “cloud dwellers,” the inhabitants of this rarefied set often communicated via poems that encoded messages about relationships, love or the intrigues of power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Trauma can affect how memories are encoded and recalled.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
The initiator marks the location where the information encoded in a gene begins to be converted, or expressed, into a functional product.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 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
Every message to London has to be laboriously encoded and delivered on a bicycle to a hidden wireless set 10 miles from here.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
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
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
This identified a three-gene control hub, LypABC, encoding bacterial proteins.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 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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