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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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Instead of functioning as stop signals, TAA and TAG appeared to encode entirely different amino acids.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 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

Scientists used a new error correction strategy to encode 70 logical qubits and tackle a problem considered classically intractable.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 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

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

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

Among these 53 genes, one encodes a protein called girdin.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 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

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

Those mutation targets are encoded into mRNA and manufactured into a vaccine—a process that takes about six weeks from the date of the biopsy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

Another gene encoded an enzyme that was needed to break down lactose into parts.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

The team also highlighted the advantages of time-bin encoding compared with many existing quantum dot based QKD systems, which can be highly sensitive to environmental disruptions.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026

Jargon, while efficiently encoding this knowledge, adds a safety buffer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

"Overall, our results showed that multidimensional joint encoding substantially increased the information carried by a single holographic data page, thereby improving storage capacity," said Tan.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026

Indeed, as predicted, when the gene encoding the hemoglobin B chain was later identified and sequenced in sickle-cell patients, there was a single change: one triplet in DNA—GAG—had changed to another—GTG.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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