2020-06-02
Niclosamide is a drug that has been proved to have a great antiviral effect on SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, but its limited solubility stands in the way of making an efficient drug; the researchers of Purdue University recently succeeded in increasing the solubility of this substance by 5000 times using the plant-based nanoparticles of octenylsuccinate hydroxypropyl...