Aug 15, 2011 7:00 AM
This is bullet-proof human skin made from spider silk and goat milk. Yes, really.
Jalila Essaidi is testing the limits of human endurance, and it starts by having to milk spider-goats. Spider goats are otherwise innocent-looking goats that have been genetically engineered to produce milk packed with the protein made in spider's silk.
Once the goats are milked, Essaidi spins the protein into fiber that is ten times stronger than steel, and mixes it with human skin.
Basically she's created a fiber matrix of the protein, laced liberally with human skin cells. The result is a composite of human skin that can actually stop bullets, as you can see in this picture below.
http://io9.com/5830664/this-is-bull...ade-from-spider-silk-and-goat-milk-yes-really
This is bullet-proof human skin made from spider silk and goat milk. Yes, really.
Jalila Essaidi is testing the limits of human endurance, and it starts by having to milk spider-goats. Spider goats are otherwise innocent-looking goats that have been genetically engineered to produce milk packed with the protein made in spider's silk.
Once the goats are milked, Essaidi spins the protein into fiber that is ten times stronger than steel, and mixes it with human skin.
Basically she's created a fiber matrix of the protein, laced liberally with human skin cells. The result is a composite of human skin that can actually stop bullets, as you can see in this picture below.
http://io9.com/5830664/this-is-bull...ade-from-spider-silk-and-goat-milk-yes-really
