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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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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

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

Genes and brains and books encode information differently and persist through time at different rates.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Similarly, a different antisense oligonucleotide linked to BCC10 greatly reduced another gene, Mapt, which encodes the tau protein and is a target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 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 notebook brand is cheap and easy to find in stores, with layouts encoded into his process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Trauma can affect how memories are encoded and recalled.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

Unlike individual physical qubits, logical qubits are encoded in a way that helps protect quantum information from errors and noise.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 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 building of organs and structures, Lewis concluded, is encoded by master-regulatory “effector” genes that work like autonomous units or subroutines.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

"Overall, our results showed that multidimensional joint encoding substantially increased the information carried by a single holographic data page, thereby improving storage capacity," said Tan.

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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