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Article Source: National Nine News
A Dutch artist has combined human skin and spider silk to develop a type of bulletproof skin.
Jalila Essasidi worked with international scientists to create the new tissue using the silk, which is four times stronger than Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests, New Scientist reports.
Genetically modified goats and silkworms, able to produce spider silk proteins, spun out the weave in a lab at Utah State University.
The cocoons were then taken to South Korea, where they were made into thread and then sent to Germany to be woven into fabric.
This silk was then placed between bioengineered skin cells, developed by biochemist Abdoelwaheb El Ghalbzouri, in the Netherlands.
The skin was then incubated for five weeks before bullets were fired at it to test its strength.
I hate spiders, but I'm impressed by this.
#1 - Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:01 PM ESTSpiders are good! .... But I hate them too :( I won't kill one if I can help it, but damn if I will touch it either. That's what men are for! :P Nice article though. Very interesting, just imagine the possibilities.
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