Jalila Essaidi, scientists from the Netherlands, making a uniqueinnovation by creating bulletproof skin. Innovations were made in the project named "2.6g 329m / s", based on the weight andspeed of a .22-caliber long rifle bullet.
Bulletproof skin created by first harvest spider silk proteins fromgenetically engineered goat milk. Proteins were collected and woven so as to produce the material as strong as steel. Then,coupled with human skin cells cultured manner.
Culture results showed bulletproof skin tissue. In a YouTube video, as shown by Essaidi under this article, artificial skin wassuccessfully stop a bullet, though not the caliber and high speed.
The development of this innovation is still needed, but Essaidi'vegot a lot of wishful thinking. "Imagine a bulletproof vest withspider silk that could catch bullets in modern times with arrowsGenghis Khan," said Essaidi.
Even crazier, he said, "Imagine that we replace the keratin, the protein responsible for the violence of the skin, with spider silk. It is possible to insert genes of spider silk makers in the humangenome so as to create bulletproof man."
Aka science fiction only a fantasy? Probably yes. However, if the aim is only bulletproof vests, even now already exists. Creatingbulletproof man is more revolutionary goals. Let's wait for further research developments.
For those who want to see, leather bulletproof Essaidisuccessfully created is now on display at the National Museum ofNatural History Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands, until January 8, 2012 to come.
sources:
sains.kompas.com
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