replication

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By contrast, Bennett and Brassard's theory - known as BB84 - shows that any attempt to hack or copy their quantum encryption key changes the very behaviour of its elements, making replication impossible.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Have you taken any steps to trademark it or even license it for AI replication someday?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

The most important thing, Walden said, is to avoid mere replication — both of the nominated films’ scores and of the featured performance numbers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

While both drugs target the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase enzyme to prevent viral replication, they do so through entirely different biochemical pathways.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Gene replication must explain how a multicellular organism emerges from a single cell—and errors in replication might elucidate how a spontaneous metabolic illness, or a devastating mental disease, might arise in a previously unaffected family.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee