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Considerable efforts have been made to develop increasingly effective hiPSC differentiation protocols, although critical issues related to cost, the percentage of differentiated cells that are obtained, and reproducibility remain open. In addition, transplantation of hiPSC would require immunoprotection within encapsulation devices, to make the construct invisible to the host\u2019s immune system and consequently avoid the recipient\u2019s general pharmacologic immunosuppression.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> For this work, a microencapsulation system based on the use of \u201chuman elastin-like recombinamers\u201d (ELRs) was tested to envelop hiPSC. Special attention was devoted to <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic> characterization of the hiPSCs upon coating with ERLs.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results and Discussion:<\/jats:bold> We observed that ELRs coating did not interfere with viability and function and other biological properties of differentiated hiPSCs, while <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>, ELRs seemed to afford immunoprotection to the cell grafts in preliminary <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic> study. 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