e-Flux is a visionary project that brings evolvability concepts to Information Technology, providing radically new knowledge, and theoretical foundation to widen IT impact on our society and quality of life.
This project rests on the realization that forefront theoretical research, coupled to cutting-edge technologies, can produce the necessary knowledge and know-how to understand how complex system evolve. In particular, how evolvability in natural system can be used for engineering purposes.
Thanks to the realisation of complex microfluidic systems, the team will study an unprecedented number of small cellular populations from which it will be possible to develop an evolvable machine to enable the monitoring of a evolutionary pathway for long periods of time.
Understanding evolvability could bring a step forward towards the comprehension of the fluid automata, with impact on drug discovery and biotechnology. Technological and theoretical sources amalgamate into a bottom-up research project.
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