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August 24, 2011 08:30 am PDT

Spidergoat-silk + human skin = (nearly) bulletproof flesh

Bioartist Jalila Essadi attempted to create bulletproof human skin by implanting transgenic spider-silk (extracted from a spider-goat, of course) with human skin. Essadi was hoping for skin that could stop a 2.6g projectile at 329 m/s (the performance standard for … Continue reading


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