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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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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

Now, the Surge doesn’t think it would be that much effort to encode those promises into law, to be extra careful.

From Slate Jan. 17, 2026

Qubits, meanwhile, are the basic units of information that encode data in a quantum machine, analogous to bits in traditional computers.

From Barron's Oct. 21, 2025

The genre’s marginal roots complicate blanket condemnations, since the same raunchy lyrics often encode critiques of class exclusion.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2025

The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Most of the viral genome contains instructions for structural proteins, but it also encodes several specialized proteins required for replication.

From Science Daily May 13, 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

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

Still, federal authorities warned local law enforcement that they had detected a new broadcast of a likely encoded sequence that could be “an operational trigger” for “sleeper assets” potentially on U.S. soil.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

This identified a three-gene control hub, LypABC, encoding bacterial proteins.

From Science Daily Apr. 17, 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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