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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

Some AI companies are now trying to encode human values into their products.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

By modifying an open model’s weights—which encode knowledge and behavior—anyone can tear down its safety guardrails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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

The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

“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 notebook brand is cheap and easy to find in stores, with layouts encoded into his process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

It made their activity patterns more specialized for emotional information, suggesting that the brain was adjusting how it encoded emotionally meaningful experiences.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Trauma can affect how memories are encoded and recalled.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

Faced with an entire fourth quarter of do-or-die plays, Manning flashed the skills that fans have long assumed were encoded in his DNA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin encoded the message using a one-time pad.

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

This would slow down the encoding and decoding that constantly occurs in our online interactions, but it wouldn’t make things unusable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

By encoding information into different twisting and spinning patterns, researchers may be able to increase the amount of data carried by individual light beams.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

"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

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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