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QSQualitätssicherung (German: Quality Assurance)
QSQuicksilver
QSQuality System
QSQuick Start
QSQuantity Surveyor
QSQuébec Solidaire (Canada political party)
QSQuality Service(s)
QSQuality Starts (baseball)
QSQuit Smoking
QSQuorum Sensing
QSQuality Start (baseball gaming)
QSQuota Share
QSQuadratic Sieve (method of factoring integers)
QSQuality Start (baseball; start by a pitcher of 6+ innings & 3 runs or fewer)
QSQuasi-Static
QSquality surveillance (US DoD)
QSQuick Shift (Campagnolo bicycle shifter)
QSQuick Strike
QSQuantity Sufficient
QSQuikSilver Inc (boarding company)
QSQuartersawn (cutting lumber from logs to yield grain at approx 90* to face of board)
QSQuasi-Synchronous
QSQuantum Sufficit (Latin: as much as suffices)
QSQualification Sample
QSQuantum Sufficiat (Latin: sufficient quantity; on a prescription, indicates quantity is left to the dispenser's discretion)
QSQualitative State
QSQuickbooks Specialist
QSQuarter Session
QSQueen Scout (Australia)
QSQuality Scalability
QSQuota Sample
QSQueens Surface
QSQuarternary Structure
QSQuickStack
QSQuébec Secours (Canada)
QSQuota Source
QSQuantity Spilled
QSBody Heat Storage Index


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More than 30 years ago, investigators first noted quorum sensing in two luminous bacteria, Vibrio fischeri and Vibrio harveyi.
One-celled socialites: bacteria mix and mingle with microscopic fervor by Bower, Bruce / Science News
Once a critical number of bacteria have formed a surface attachment, quorum sensing allows for specific differentiation and for production of an extracellular protective glycocalyx (polysaccharide "slime").
Basics of biofilm in clinical otolaryngology by Manning, Scott C. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Quorex, a Carlsbad, California based developer of anti-infective drugs, will utilize this venture capital financing to continue its research into its quorum sensing and signaling system and to accelerate animal feasibility studies.
Tullis-Dickerson Furthers Important Biotech/Life Science Research and ... by Business Wire
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