Amazing video shows bio-engineered 'bulletproof' human skin reinforced with spider silk

[wyldwolf]

Human skin can stop a bullet - with a little help from genetically modified goats. The skin is mixed with goat 'milk' from goats 'tweaked' to produce the same protein found in spider silk. Woven spider silk is four times stronger than Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests. The 'silk' is layered with bio-engineered human skin grown in laboratory, and can withstand a direct impact from a bullet - although not one fired at full speed, yet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2094364/Bio-engineered-bulletproof-skin-human-cells-spider-silk-revealed-video.html

[Posteritatis]

1. Love the "not one fired at full speed" caveat

I can take a direct hit from a cannonball, provided it's gently tossed underhand at me.

[denbot]

2. They might have something if they can cure hydrostatic shock damage.

The bullet does not have to penetrate to have profound effects on a living body.

In the following video the bullet obviously penetrates the target, but the damage to the container is mostly a result of hydrostatic shock. (slow motion close up starting at 25 seconds)

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