A New Formulation Helps the Medicine Go Down

The team used chitosan, a naturally-occurring sugar polymer found in the exoskeleton of shellfish and the cell walls of certain fungi, to coat the oil-core of capsules and bind the drug together, while stabilising the capsule and helping to preserve it. In its nanocapsule form, the drug would be 100 times more soluble than its current tablet form https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/a-new-formulation-helps-the-medicine-go-down-313073?utm_campaign=Newsletter_TN_BreakingScienceNews&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=68298142&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_Mrq2y_JuIAw1ft-xJoADZxav9LxoMtViyJSB6Mb4xWOKL1FpLWi-UBpooolOlYznnkSOJnt5GOZXOrn9dquExwJdXpA&_hsmi=68298142