Human skin blended with spider silk said to be bulletproof

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Dutch artist Jalila Essaïdi and cell biologist Abdoelwaheb El Ghalbzouri have blended spider silk with human skin to produce material that is three times stronger than kevlar.

Watch video, courtesy of Reuters, below:

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12 years ago

(Shudder.) Arachnophobia.

lazersedge
Reply to  Dorothy Anderson
12 years ago

Come on Dorothy. Just think, you and a spider can make beautiful, bullet proof skin. Just think about it. Your Skin, His Silk. WOW! 🙂 🙂

jenny40
12 years ago

I’ll bet there’s a lot of people who wish that was available right now. Hard to believe it could really work to stop bullets.

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