Don’t bet your life on it

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	Don’t bet your life on it

In an art-science collaboration, Dutch artist Jalila Essaidi and Utah State researcher Randy Lewis produced a prototype bulletproof skin — or at least skin that would limit a .22-caliber bullet to only about 2 inches’ penetration into a simulated human body. Genetically engineered spider silk — reputed to be five times stronger than steel — was grafted between layers of dermis and epidermis.

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