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Skeletal muscle atrophy offers a huge opportunity for an effective drug. After many failures, industry may be on the verge. Ken Garber reports.

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Figure 1: Myostatin signaling limits muscle growth and strength by blocking muscle protein synthesis and triggering muscle protein degradation.

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  • 27 July 2016

    In the version of this article initially published, on p.460, columns 1 and 2, the number following “ACE-” was given as “2454” instead of “2494.” The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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Garber, K. No longer going to waste. Nat Biotechnol 34, 458–461 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3557

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