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August 24, 2011 08:30 am PDT
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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 readingOriginal Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7DBPlWFspF0/spidergoat-silk-human-skin-nearly-bulletproof-flesh.html
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