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encode

[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

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

These vortices offer additional ways to encode information, but most existing systems can produce only a single type of pattern and usually lack the ability to switch between modes.

From Science Daily Feb. 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

A quadruplet code would have 256 permutations—far more than needed to encode twenty amino acids.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“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

“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

"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

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

Memory consolidates through a process called elaborative encoding.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

"By helping guide the best AI approach, the framework helps avoid encoding features that are not important," Nemenman says.

From Science Daily Mar. 3, 2026

And she did give them code—eleven sets of encoding poems, passwords, and frequencies.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein




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