encode
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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
"Our approach enabled us to isolate specific genetic and immune factors, then translate those signatures to human brain scans, showing that different connectivity patterns encode different mechanistic pathways underlying autism."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
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
The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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“But what helps our scientists is that it encodes information very, very broadly.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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
It also encodes a wide range of political and technical compromises about how to translate food into nutrients that meet the diverse needs of the American public.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 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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"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
Computers can only perform calculations using data and instructions that have been encoded into physical forms they can recognize and process.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Like traditional computers whose basic information is encoded by bits, quantum computers rely on quantum bits.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
In this way each new cell will contain a complete set of chromosomes, and all the genetic information encoded within them.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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
Another important development is time-bin encoding, a technique that stores information in the arrival times of photons.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
Jargon, while efficiently encoding this knowledge, adds a safety buffer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
In contrast, encoding information into ceramic materials could preserve it for hundreds or even thousands of years.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026
Indeed, as predicted, when the gene encoding the hemoglobin B chain was later identified and sequenced in sickle-cell patients, there was a single change: one triplet in DNA—GAG—had changed to another—GTG.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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