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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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Seeley and his colleagues demonstrated how personality is, at least partly, brought into being by neurons that are specifically tailored to synthesize social functioning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

Clinicians and patients can use AI to collect and synthesize every bit of scientific data on the planet to help make a diagnosis or a treatment plan.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

Wall Street needed his bets in order to synthesize more of them.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The second is that humans specialize while AI synthesizes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 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

His faceless, mustachioed cipher synthesizes the archetype of the clone with the prominence of the facial hair as a signifier of masculinity in Mexican culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 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

"We were not expecting that because these proteins are mainly synthesized in the liver," says Manish Mishra, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in the Dixit lab and a co-first author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The researchers used their model to generate genomes based on the template virus and then synthesized the DNA and put the AI-generated viruses into bacterial cells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

They then identified and synthesized many of the chemical messengers found in the ant brain.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

It was first synthesized from thymosin β4 in 2003 and has since been used to help horses and greyhounds improve racing performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Over a barely digested lunch, the three scientists realized that this intermediate molecule had to shuttle from the cell’s nucleus, where genes were stored, to the cytoplasm, where proteins were synthesized.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

But artificial intelligence is stepping in on that synthesizing process.

From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026

During reproduction, the helices separate, assisted by a special unwinding protein, each synthesizing an identical copy of the other from nucleotide building blocks floating about nearby in the viscous liquid of the cell nucleus.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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