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Scientists sequence a patient's tumor to identify up to 34 unique molecular fingerprints called neoantigens and encode them into a custom vaccine.
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Allison Aubrey,
NPR,
1 June 2026
With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids.
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ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
The technique used to measure the singularities’ velocity could open the door to studying other tiny, fast phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology—or perhaps to find new ways to encode quantum information in materials, according to the researchers.
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Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
Quantum computers encode information in qubits, described by IBM as the equivalent in a way of the traditional bit used in old-fashioned computers to encode data in binary.
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Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Allison Aubrey,
NPR,
1 June 2026
With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids.
—
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
The technique used to measure the singularities’ velocity could open the door to studying other tiny, fast phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology—or perhaps to find new ways to encode quantum information in materials, according to the researchers.
—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
Quantum computers encode information in qubits, described by IBM as the equivalent in a way of the traditional bit used in old-fashioned computers to encode data in binary.
—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Even the consumer-level codes that encrypt your online banking are so hard to break that every computer on the planet working together would need longer than the age of the universe to brute-force them apart.
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Most cloud computing services encrypt data in transit and at rest.
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How the genes that encode those proteins are regulated depends on some of the genome that doesn’t code for proteins.
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The children of service business owners also grew up, learned how to code, and wanted to make an impact on their family business.
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The real challenge from AI will likely emerge in the weeks and months ahead as firms cipher through Judge Mehta’s enforcement of behavioral requirements.
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An Enigma ciphering machine that was donated to the museum by telecommunications company SIRTI.Photo: Cantalupi, Pavia One of the artifacts from SIRTI collection was a German ciphering machine used in World War II, an Enigma, Savini says.
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“Encode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encode. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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