ELI5 How does medicine like antibiotics know where to go in our body

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ELI5 How does medicine like antibiotics know where to go in our body

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They don’t. They go everywhere in the body. So we have to make medications so that they only affect certain types of cells in the body. For example bacteria have cell walls and our body cells don’t. So one type of antibiotics attacks all cells with a cell wall – thereby killing the bacteria.

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