liposome
li·po·some
noun
1.
an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector
Origin
From lipo- (“fat”) + -some (“body”). From Ancient Greek λίπος (lípos, “fat”) and Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “soma”).
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