Correction to: Nature Cell Biology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-018-0036-0, published online 25 January 2018.

In the version of this News & Views originally published, owing to a technical error some incorrect characters were introduced into the second sentence of the main text, starting “Autophagy can be divided into non-selective...”, where “caspringDE@2017n” should have read ‘can’. This has now been corrected in all versions of this News & Views.