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The J. Craig Venter Institute made history in 2010 when it used digital DNA code to synthesize what?

synthesize

[sin-thuh-sahyz] / ˈsΙͺn ΞΈΙ™ΛŒsaΙͺz /


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Can you synthesize lots of disparate pieces of information?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The new agentic Siri boasts the ability to synthesize data across areas like messages, emails and photos and carry out multistep actions across different apps.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

Generative AI can synthesize and extrapolate in valuable ways, but it also can produce wrong answers or take on tasks that educators would see as inappropriate or counterproductive — such as writing papers for students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

"Our strategy is using this new carbon nanostructure to synthesize platinum cobalt intermetallic nanoparticles that can reduce precious metal content and enhance activity and stability," Wu said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Under the right circumstances in the test tube, short nucleic acids can synthesize identical copies of themselves.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The bot, which synthesizes health data, recommended a tailored diet to help McDaniel reduce hair loss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The platform’s AI then synthesizes this information and generates a robust appeal letter that incorporates data from peer-reviewed scientific evidence, legal precedents where insurers have lost in court and relevant policy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

Published in Nature Cities, the comprehensive review synthesizes evidence from cities worldwide, revealing how human conflict and cultural practices affect wildlife genetics, behavior and survival in urban environments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025

"Without the CB5D gene, the plant synthesizes only a small amount of S-lignin," said Xianhai Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven and lead author on the new paper.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024

Parks Canada is also taking advantage of another technological development called stereophotogrammetry, which produces pictures in pairs and then synthesizes hundreds of these pairings to produce extraordinarily clear images of whatever object is being studied.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

This album is a lot more synthesized than your previous work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Its a continuation of the precedent they’ve set in terms of lyrical and sonic quality, but simultaneously is far more melancholic and synthesized than their previous work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

"We were not expecting that because these proteins are mainly synthesized in the liver," says Manish Mishra, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in the Dixit lab and a co-first author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The researchers used their model to generate genomes based on the template virus and then synthesized the DNA and put the AI-generated viruses into bacterial cells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

There were some fuzzy data using sea urchins, interpreted as a transformation of DNA into RNA, but I preferred to trust other experiments showing that DNA molecules, once synthesized, are very very stable.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

In a new study published in Nature Electronics, a Harvard led research team unveiled a silicon chip capable of synthesizing 64 different DNA sequences at the same time.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

But Socolow came off as masterful at synthesizing energy challenges and environmental concerns, and Pacala brought deep knowledge of how carbon moves between Earth’s atmosphere, land and oceans.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

Though far from perfect, AI systems already outperform human customer-service agents on many routine tasks, particularly in gathering, synthesizing and consistently delivering information.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

Even the pioneers of AI will tell you, Stassun said, in many cases, what AI does very well is rapidly synthesizing, consolidating or repackaging existing information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

He looks down at the scrawling he’s made on the paper, synthesizing everything he’s written, as if expecting new information to leap out at him.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse


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