Muscle Building Blog

Ipswich star David Norris hopes to be back from a knee ligament injury before the turn of the year after making rapid strides in his recovery.The 28-year-old sustained the serious injury during the opening-day defeat at Coventry but is hoping to come back ahead of schedule.“I saw a specialist just a couple of days ago,” he told BBC Suffolk. “He seemed pleasantly surprised by how the knee looked and how I was getting a bit more muscle definition in my thighs.“As long as I don’t have any setbacks

By Patrick Jackson BBC News A Pentagon-sponsored project to control flying insects remotely has sent ripples of excitement across the scientific pond. Part insect, part machine, the cyborg beetle has been tested successfully by its developers at the University of California, Berkeley. Video footage shows a beetle being flown around a room by a man using a laptop. At one point it is tethered to a transparent plastic plate, and its tiny limbs can be seen twitching in response

This might not please my fellow scrutineers of the BBC on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee nor my friends in the Government for that matter, but I quite like it when the BBC flexes a bit of muscle. And that’s exactly what Mark Thompson has done today, with a no holds barred speech to delegates at the Royal Television Society in Cambridge this afternoon.Here’s his opening paragraph on the Murdochs:“I want to start with a few words in defence of that highly but also I’m afraid much a

Facing a dengue outbreak, the government of Sri Lanka is trying to get rid of its water puddles. Authorities in the country warned that they would jail and fine the citizens in the capital Colombo and surrounding areas who fail to clean up pools of standing water within the next two weeks, the BBC reported Tuesday. The measure -– which carries a six-month jail sentence and/or a fine of up to $220 — aims combat the spread of dengue fever, which is carried by mosquitoes that breed in puddles

Hysterectomies a stem cell source from BBC News reports that fallopian tubes obtained from hysterectomies are a source of stem cells. Work shows they are an abundant source of the immature cells that have the potential to become a variety of the body's tissues, like muscle and bone. The discovery offers another ethical route to creating stem cell treatments for diseases like arthritis without using embryos. The findings are published in The Journal of Translational Medicine.