LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CytRx Corporation (NASDAQ:CYTR), a biopharmaceutical company and a leader in molecular chaperone regulation technology, today announced that a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Gerontology concluded that molecular chaperone amplification may represent a “significant strategy” in the future design of anti-aging pharmaceuticals. The paper’s authors, led by Stuart K. Calderwood, Ph.D., of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, reviewed 40 clinical and animal studies in peer-reviewed publications and found that molecular chaperones play an important role in the deterrence of protein damage during the aging process and that chaperone expression is required for cell longevity.
