ICT: An effective tool for Quality of Life and Biotechnology

Abstract

Today, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be considered mature and, therefore, ready to be applied in other areas where its technological, modeling and architectural results can be effective. Quality of Life (QoL) related research fields can take great advantage from the maturity of ICT. The Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF) and, in particular, its Italian node, is addressing deep efforts in the use of ICT for improving the QoL, through an interdisciplinary research. In this paper we present the application of ICT on Biotechnology field; in particular the CTIF_Italy, Italian node of CTIF, is working, along with other international partners, on a stem cells research for the development of cardiac tissue, defining models to characterise cells interactions and networking related issues.