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



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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