However, the idea of using silk to make bulletproof vests is not a new idea. Instead, it goes back centuries. The invention of the silk bulletproof vest is often credited to the American physician ...

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 ...

A roaring success in the experiment resulted in full-length silkworm-originated spider silk-like fibres which were a whopping six times tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests!