A Dutch team has created a piece of “bulletproof skin” from special, U.S.-made spider silk and human skin cells. They’ve discovered it is actually preventing bullets away if they are not too fast for it. Jalila Essaidi is the Dutch artist who, along with the Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands has created this skin.
“Even with the ‘bulletproof’ skin being pierced by the faster bullet, the experiment is, in my view, still a success,” Essaidi said. “The art project is based on and leads to a debate on the question, ‘Which forms of safety are socially important?’”
The silk used in the skin comes from genetically modified goats and worms at Utah State University in US. The researchers at the university have been trying long to develop fibres using goat milk’s protein that are stronger than fibres that exist currently.
You can check out the bulletproof skin in Leiden, Netherlands; it’s on display at the National Natural History Museum Naturalis until Jan. 8, 2012.
The bulletproof skin can resist bullets but the high speed bullets did pierce the skin as shown in the photo
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