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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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The findings represented the first reported example of a genetic code in which both TAA and TAG had been reassigned to encode two different amino acids.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Some AI companies are now trying to encode human values into their products.

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

A gene, in short, possessed not just information to encode a protein, but also information about when and where to make that protein.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"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

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

The fact that the genome also encodes genes to repair damage to the genome was discovered by several geneticists, including Evelyn Witkin and Steve Elledge.

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

Faced with an entire fourth quarter of do-or-die plays, Manning flashed the skills that fans have long assumed were encoded in his DNA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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

Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin encoded the message using a one-time pad.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

In contrast, encoding information into ceramic materials could preserve it for hundreds or even thousands of years.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 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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