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The J. Craig Venter Institute made history in 2010 when it used digital DNA code to synthesize what?

synthesize

[sin-thuh-sahyz] / ˈsΙͺn ΞΈΙ™ΛŒsaΙͺz /


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Chief among them is the time required to physically synthesize and test newly designed proteins.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The value of a university lies in helping students evaluate evidence, recognize weak reasoning, synthesize competing ideas and defend their conclusions under scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Generative AI can synthesize and extrapolate in valuable ways, but it also can produce wrong answers or take on tasks that educators would see as inappropriate or counterproductive — such as writing papers for students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Even when a material appears promising on paper, it may still prove impractical because it is too difficult to synthesize or impossible to produce at scale, Törmä notes.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026

Under the right circumstances in the test tube, short nucleic acids can synthesize identical copies of themselves.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The startups are all working on the same basic idea—integrate direct-air carbon capture with the equipment that synthesizes natural gas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The platform’s AI then synthesizes this information and generates a robust appeal letter that incorporates data from peer-reviewed scientific evidence, legal precedents where insurers have lost in court and relevant policy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

WeCount synthesizes the data and creates imputations for the clinics that don't send their data.

From Salon ● May 15, 2024

When a body is injured, it synthesizes fibrin at the site of the wound.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024

Parks Canada is also taking advantage of another technological development called stereophotogrammetry, which produces pictures in pairs and then synthesizes hundreds of these pairings to produce extraordinarily clear images of whatever object is being studied.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Still, the cumbia villera of her childhood — a heavily synthesized subgenre born in the outskirts of Buenos Aires in the late 1990s — runs through everything she makes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Its a continuation of the precedent they’ve set in terms of lyrical and sonic quality, but simultaneously is far more melancholic and synthesized than their previous work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Sil synthesized the predicted genes and used cells to produce the reconstructed ancient proteins.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Those viruses are much larger and more complex than the ones synthesized in the experiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The hormone cortisol, recently synthesized in the lab, had been found to arrest the virilization these girls normally underwent, allowing them to develop as normal females.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

It’s well to remember that in the early days of synthesizing instruments, violins with perfect vibrato sounded especially fake, until tiny errors generated by chance were added to the sine waves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

In a new study published in Nature Electronics, a Harvard led research team unveiled a silicon chip capable of synthesizing 64 different DNA sequences at the same time.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

But Socolow came off as masterful at synthesizing energy challenges and environmental concerns, and Pacala brought deep knowledge of how carbon moves between Earth’s atmosphere, land and oceans.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

Though far from perfect, AI systems already outperform human customer-service agents on many routine tasks, particularly in gathering, synthesizing and consistently delivering information.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

He looks down at the scrawling he’s made on the paper, synthesizing everything he’s written, as if expecting new information to leap out at him.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse


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