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
Instead of trying to measure the area inside a parabola as the Greeks did, early algebraists sought to find the solutions to equations that encode relationships between different numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
"This metric geometrically encodes the perceived color distance -- that is, how different two colors appear to an observer."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 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
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
He found that Anabaena and some related cyanobacteria contain a system known as ParMR encoded within their chromosomes.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
Like traditional computers whose basic information is encoded by bits, quantum computers rely on quantum bits.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
Units of hereditary information, encoded in DNA and packaged on chromosomes, are transmitted through sperm and egg into an embryo, and from the embryo to every living cell in an organism’s body.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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"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
Jargon, while efficiently encoding this knowledge, adds a safety buffer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Memory consolidates through a process called elaborative encoding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
A major advantage of shaping photons is that it allows researchers to use high-dimensional encoding alphabets.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 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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