Credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman
The drug inhibitor molecule boceprevir, a hepatitis C drug, is combined with GC-376, a chemical warhead from a drug used to treat the original coronavirus outbreak caused by SARS-CoV. The experimental hybrid molecule BBH-1 has shown favorable results in its ability to block the SARS-CoV-2 virus from replicating and preventing it from hijacking healthy human cells.