Liposome
A hollow bubble with a fatty skin, used to carry drugs through the body.
A liposome is a hollow sphere whose skin is made of the same kind of fat molecules as a cell membrane. Drugs can travel inside it, which changes where they go in the body and how long they last. Doxil, approved in 1995, was the first.
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Technologies we track
- Liposomal doxorubicin (Doxil)Step 4 · On saleDoxil was the first nanomedicine approved in the US, in 1995.