encode
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Instead of physically isolating and examining hundreds of thousands of peptides, the program analyzed the roughly 20,000 genes that encode human proteins, looking for sequences where the enzyme was likely to make cuts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
But every person you ask has a slightly different answer; how are humans meant to encode our values into AI if we can't agree ourselves?
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
These units encode messages to build proteins—and the messages and proteins, in turn, enable the form and function of a living organism.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Evidence suggests that the human genome encodes more than 200 lectins, which are carbohydrate-binding proteins involved in immune defense and communication between cells.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 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
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
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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Called “cloud dwellers,” the inhabitants of this rarefied set often communicated via poems that encoded messages about relationships, love or the intrigues of power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
The researchers found that structured light possesses its own topological characteristics, encoded in the arrangement of its polarization.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Trauma can affect how memories are encoded and recalled.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
"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
I didn’t need to enter my destination on the touchscreen because it was already encoded on my voucher.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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
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
It may also lead to better ways of transmitting signals between devices and encoding more information within them.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
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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