LIPOSOME

liposome

(noun) an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

liposome (plural liposomes)

(biochemistry) An aqueous compartment enclosed by a bimolecular membrane, typically of phospholipid; a lipid vesicle.

Coordinate terms

• azotosome

Anagrams

• semiloop

Source: Wiktionary



RESET




Word of the Day

2 July 2025

RESTITUTION

(noun) getting something back again; “upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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