Genome Editing to Abrogate Muscle Atrophy

Muscle atrophy is a multifactor syndrome, which not only decreases the patients' quality of life significantly but also increases the morbidity and mortality of patients with chronic diseases. At present, no effective clinical treatments for muscle atrophy except for exercise are available. The emerging field of genome editing is gaining momentum as it has shown great advantage in the treatment of various diseases, including muscle atrophy. In our current review, we systematically evaluate the etiology and related signaling pathways of muscle atrophy and discuss the application of genome editing in the treatment of muscle atrophy.