encode
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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
Because they can potentially encode and store information, researchers see them as promising building blocks for future data storage, communications, and computing technologies.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 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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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
Similarly, a different antisense oligonucleotide linked to BCC10 greatly reduced another gene, Mapt, which encodes the tau protein and is a target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 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
“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
After confirming the concept, the researchers built a compact system capable of recording and reconstructing the encoded optical field within a polarization-sensitive material.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026
From his own plant hybrids, de Vries could dimly tell that variant features, such as stem size, were encoded by indivisible particles of information.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
"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
Another important development is time-bin encoding, a technique that stores information in the arrival times of photons.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
Memory consolidates through a process called elaborative encoding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 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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