Quorum
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Thus, one had to coordinate ten such funds to reach the
quorum
.
More example sentences with word quorum
It includes bacteriophages, probiotics,
quorum
sensing, synbiotics.
Now, our genetic program relies on a natural phenomenon called
quorum
sensing, in which bacteria trigger coordinated and sometimes virulent behaviors once they reach a critical density.
You can observe
quorum
sensing in action in this movie, where a growing colony of bacteria only begins to glow once it reaches a high or critical density.
Now, since these bacteria specifically localize to tumors, we've been programming them to not only detect cancer but also to treat cancer by producing therapeutic molecules from within the tumor environment that shrink the existing tumors, and we've been doing this using
quorum
sensing programs like you saw in the previous movies.
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