Yao

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[ you ]

noun

, Wade-Giles, Pinyin.

1. a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor Shun, was a paragon of good government.

Yao

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[ you ]

noun

, plural Yaos, (especially collectively) Yao

1. a member of an Indigenous people of Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
2. the Bantu language spoken by the Yao.

Example Sentences

"There's a delay between the ion's 'impact' and secondary electron emission, and that's the key piece of information that we were after in our simulations," said Yifan Yao, the study's lead author and a graduate student in Schleife's research group.

From Science Daily

So, in this latest study, PhD student Yizhou Yao sought to determine whether the technique would increase the penetration of virus particles into liver cells.

From Science Daily

Using human hepatoma cells, a model system for studying the liver, Yao exposed batches of the cells to various concentrations of the gene therapy virus particles containing a fluorescent green protein.

From Science Daily

When she examined the results 48 hours later under a fluorescence microscope, Yao found that only a small percentage of the cells that had not received the electrical pulses glowed green.

From Science Daily

"But then Yao got this remarkable result, and it dawned on us that virus particles are in general bigger and more complex than bare molecular particles and they already have their own way of getting inside cells. So, we don't really know if it's the pores opening that has anything to do with it directly or indirectly."

From Science Daily