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This is bullet-proof human skin - made from spider silk and goat milk.
Step 1: Create goat that makes spider silk proteins in its milk. Check.
Step 2: Milk said goat, spin protein into fiber. Check.
Step 3: Seed spider silk/goat milk fiber with human skin cells, create bulletproof spider/human/goat milk skin. Check.
(via io9)
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This is bullet-proof human skin - made from spider silk and goat milk.

Step 1: Create goat that makes spider silk proteins in its milk. Check.

Step 2: Milk said goat, spin protein into fiber. Check.

Step 3: Seed spider silk/goat milk fiber with human skin cells, create bulletproof spider/human/goat milk skin. Check.

(via io9)

Source: io9.com

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    what what?? soooo crazy this...why i love science
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    Didn’t really read it at all. But if that is real BLOODY AMAZING. But sounds like you have to do one cell at a time.
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    Anyone who knows me personally will know that I don’t often swear, but on this occasion I have to exclaim, WHAT THE...
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