Drugs designed to prevent muscle loss and boost muscle growth are being tested in clinical trials. Are these the next big thing after GLP-1 drugs, asks Michael Le Page BUILDING muscle is hard. Stop working out for just a few days and you start to lose it. What’s more, it gets tougher and tougher just to maintain muscle as we get older. But now a number of muscle-boosting drugs are being tested in clinical trials. Is staying strong into old age about to get much easier? The origin of this kind of muscle-boosting drug dates back to the 1990s, when a team in the US discovered a protein resembling known growth factors, which boost or hinder cell growth. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第271卷 第3611期 · 2026年9月5日,Michael Le Page。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。