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
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
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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“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
Among these 53 genes, one encodes a protein called girdin.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 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
More specifically, quantum information becomes encoded within long lived "vibrations" of the torsion field that exist inside the remnant's geometry.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Like traditional computers whose basic information is encoded by bits, quantum computers rely on quantum bits.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher of the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a Lacedemonian military code.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
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
In contrast, encoding information into ceramic materials could preserve it for hundreds or even thousands of years.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 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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