A moment later, a bulletproof vest may not be sold again if everyone has bulletproof skin. Scientists in the Netherlands recently announced its success in making that does not penetrate human skin, hit by bullets.
Scientists from the Forensic Genomic Consortium, Jalila Essaidi recently succeeded in developing human skin bulletproof. Trials with a rifle fired at about 165 meters per second showed that the skin remains intact.
This modified skin was not attached to the human body, because it is still in development stage in the laboratory. But one day, modification can be performed on a human gene that can grow naturally not be in the lab.
Modifications made Essaidi is mixing certain protein from goat milk. Goat's milk but not the ordinary that has been engineered so that its content in the protein resembles a spider web silk is known to be very strong.
Strength of spider web silk is mentioned four times stronger than Kevlar, which is a kind of carbon used to make bulletproof vests. Several previous studies also proved its strength, but has never been applied to human skin.
The basic idea is to modify the skin to remove a protein called keratin protein and then replace it with a spider web silk. The result is skin elastic, but has double the power to ward off bullets.
"It may add a silk-producing genes from the spider to the human gene, so that people can have bulletproof skin," said Essaidi told New Scientist, as quoted from Dailymail.
Recognized by Essaidi, this project as more people realize the fantasy in science fiction films. Ability deflect shots without a bulletproof vest over it only have fictional characters such as Superman and other superheroes.
source: detik.com
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