Working with the Forensic Genomics Consortium in the Netherlands, she said the goal was to replace the keratin in our skin with the spider’s silk。
The first stage involves growing a layer of real skin around a sample of the bulletproof skin, which takes about five weeks。
A video posted by the researchers on YouTube shows a bullet then being fired into the mixture of the two。
Essaidi said that the project was making science fiction a reality, even if the tests results were not yet perfect。
‘Imagine a spidersilk vest, capable of catching bullets, the modern day equivalent of Genghis Khan’s arrows,’ she said。
‘Now, let’s take this one step further, why bother with a vest: imagine replacing keratin, the protein responsible for the toughness of the human skin, with this spidersilk protein。
‘This is possible by adding the silk producing genes of a spider to the gnome of a human: creating a bulletproof human。
‘Science-fiction? Maybe, but we can get a feeling of what this transhumanistic idea would be like by letting a bulletproof matrix of spidersilk merge with an in vitro human skin.’
Bullet proof vests have been around for decades but skin that can stop them has only been the preserve of science fiction。
The most famous example is Superman, or the Man of Steel - bullets simply ricochet off of him。
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