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By exploring how and why exercise causes muscles to grow, scientists hope to help astronauts avoid muscle atrophy.Science@NASA -- Most machines don't improve with use. Old pickup trucks don't gradually become Ferraris just by driving them fast, and a pocket calculator won't change into a supercomputer by crunching lots of numbers. The human body is different. As weightlifters know, the more that people use their muscles, the stronger they become. And unused muscles do not remain preserved;...

A pain reliever taken off the U.S. market because of its toxic side effects may be a new treatment for a life-threatening childhood muscle-wasting disease. Ohio State University researchers Monday said indoprofen, a member of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug class that also includes ibuprofen and naproxen, could be part of a future treatment for spinal muscular atrophy. Researchers said the drug increases production of a protein crucial to the survival of nerve cells affected by the...