BIOENCAPSULATION REVISITED

Methods to encapsulate biological materials are now widely used. Somet imes bioencapsulation is considered as a universal technique conducing to identical results independently on the biological material used. F or instance, a similar behavior is frequently waited for different str ains of immobilized microorganisms without taking into account substan tial differences in its physiological and morphological characteristic s. Often interactions with the matrix support are also neglected. Thus , some concepts developed throughout all these years working in bioenc apsulation merits to be revisited.