Liposome

Liposomes are like tiny little bubbles made out of fats, kind of like the bubbles you make when you blow soap bubbles through a special wand. But instead of being for fun, liposomes are used in medicine to help deliver drugs to different parts of your body.

When we get sick, it's usually because some parts of our body don't work properly, and we need medicine to help fix those parts. But sometimes medicine just gets swallowed up by our body and doesn't get to the right spot, like a car driving around a city without a GPS. That can make it harder for medicines to work properly.

That's where liposomes come in. They can help medicine get to the right spot in your body, like a tour guide showing the car where to go. The fats in liposomes are similar to the fats in our body, so they can sneak past some of the defenses our body has to protect against invaders.

Once the liposomes get to the right spot, they can release the medicine they're carrying. This is like a present inside the bubble that gets unwrapped and given to the place that needs the medicine.

Scientists are still figuring out how to make liposomes do their job even better, but they are already helping people get better by delivering medicine where it needs to go.