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Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In collaboration with scientists at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) in Tokyo, Japan, MAX BioPharma (www.maxbiopharma.com) scientists have identified new substances with antiviral activity against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.31.429001v1). These new substances, so-called semi-synthetic oxysterols, were derived from a collection of sterol molecules created by MAX BioPharma, as part of its Oxysterol Therapeutics® platform technology that has produced oxysterol-based drug candidates in other therapeutic indications, including cancer, fibrosis, and bone formation. ....