ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Bioconjugation

Bioconjugation is like playing with Lego blocks to make something new! But instead of Lego blocks, we use molecules (tiny things we can't see with our eyes) to combine different things together.

Imagine you have a piece of bread and you want to add some peanut butter to it. The peanut butter sticks to the bread, right? That's kind of how bioconjugation works! We take different molecules, like proteins or DNA, and help them stick to each other.

And why would we want to do that? Well, researchers and scientists use bioconjugation to create new and useful things! For example, they could combine a cancer-fighting molecule with a fluorescent molecule, so they can see where the cancer cells are in the body. Or they could use bioconjugation to create a vaccine.

So, just like how we use Lego blocks to build amazing things, scientists use bioconjugation to combine molecules and create new and amazing things in the world of science and medicine.