The advancement of science is ever more contingent upon the interaction of experts
vast amount of scientific information being gathered every day that exceeds the ability
of any one scientist to acquire. As an illustration of the frantic pace of scientific
disc- more acute in the case of scientific fields at the interface of different and
seemingly distant areas of study. Amidst these, the field of cell encapsulation brings
together an array of diverse disciplines such as molecular biology and biopolymers,
gene therapy and inorganic membranes, stem cell biology and physicochemistry, immunology
and nanotechnology. Clearly, such range of topics is too broad for any individual
scientist the state-of-the-art in the field of cell encapsulation. At the core of
this technology, there is an interaction of physicochemical and biological elements
forming three distinct layers of complexity. First, the chemistry of the biopolymer
dictates the degree of protein adsorption, vascularization, tox- ity and biocompatibility
of the microcapsules. Advances in biopolymer science are providing solutions to overcome
existing challenges and to improve microcapsules as delivery vehicles. Second, the
choice of cells, and more precisely the plethora of in determining the immune response
elicited by the host to implanted microcapsules
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