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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

Telegraphy was nearly instantaneous, but it required skilled operators at each end of the line to encode and decode the message, effectively slowing transmission.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

"For the first time, we found that astrocytes encode and maintain neural fear signaling," Halladay said.

From Science Daily Apr. 4, 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

To encode a message, you first convert the message from words to the corresponding five-digit numbers from the codebook.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

"This metric geometrically encodes the perceived color distance -- that is, how different two colors appear to an observer."

From Science Daily Feb. 23, 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

"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

“The encoded numbers are followed by announcements, births and baptisms and engagements and deaths.”

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

"By combining light and quantum materials on a chip, we can access new ways of encoding and processing information."

From Science Daily Jun. 2, 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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