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Email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser.]( [KurzweilAI | Accelerating Intelligence. Newsletter ]( Tuesday | February 14, 2017 Daily edition Latest Science & Technology News [How to build your own bio-bot]( February 14, 2017 [bio-bot concept]( Building blocks for the biomachines of the future For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have reverse-engineered native biological tissues and organs — creating tiny walking “bio-bots” powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical and optical pulses. Now, in an open-access cover paper in Nature Protocols, the researchers are sharing a protocol with engineering details for their … [more…]( [Terahertz wireless could lead to fiber-optics speed in-flight and mobile metropolitan internet]( February 14, 2017 [faster satellite connections]( Hiroshima University researchers and associates have developed a terahertz* (THz) transmitter capable of transmitting digital data over a single channel at a speed of 105 gigabits per second (Gbps), and demonstrated the technology at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2017 conference last week. For perspective, that’s more than 100 times faster than the fastest … [more…]( New books [Anti-aging Drugs: From Basic Research to Clinical Practice (Drug Discovery)]( author | Alexander M Vaiserman et al. [anti-aging-drugs-cover]( Aging is a natural phenomenon that is peculiar to all living things. However, accumulating findings indicate that senescence could be postponed or prevented by certain approaches. Substantial evidence has emerged supporting the possibility of radical human health and lifespan extension, in particular through pharmacological modulation of aging. A number of natural dietary ingredients and synthetic … [more…]( [Visit]( [KurzweilAI.net]( You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as {EMAIL} To unsubscribe, please [click here](. To change your email preferences, please [click here](. KurzweilAINetwork, Inc. 733 Turnpike Street. Suite 193 North Andover, MA 01845 USA.