excipient:
Drug companies add substances, called excipients, to help medicines dissolve in the stomach and intestinal fluid, but there have been few improvements in recent years to this decades-old technology. The process outlined in the study is a major breakthrough that revolutionizes the process of making drug structures more soluble in the body so that they are better absorbed. [“University partnership with Dow results in major discovery to improve oral medications“, College of Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota]
