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A vesicle is a small bubble of liquid within a cell. More technically, a vesicle is a relatively small, intracellular, membrane-enclosed sac that stores or transports substances within a cell. Vesicles form naturally because of the properties of lipid membranes . Most vesicles have specialized functions depending on what materials they contain.

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