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
Scientists believe this unique characteristic could provide entirely new ways to encode, transmit, and process data.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 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 “action” of a gene is described in mechanistic terms: genes encode chemical messages to build proteins that ultimately enable form and function.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
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
This additional layer of complexity—that DNA encodes a protein that allows DNA to replicate—is important because it provides a critical node for regulation.
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
The exact detection time is random, and information is encoded in the phase relationship between these light pulses.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Like traditional computers whose basic information is encoded by bits, quantum computers rely on quantum bits.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
A one-time pad contained randomly generated sets of numbers, organized in groups of five, that were added mathematically to the encoded, numbered messages.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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
Their approach uses high-dimensional encoding and is based on a well-known optical phenomenon called the Talbot effect.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
In contrast, encoding information into ceramic materials could preserve it for hundreds or even thousands of years.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026
Memory consolidates through a process called elaborative encoding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The pullover cost me four sets of wireless code—the full lot of encoding poems, passwords, and frequencies.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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