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World's Smallest Wedding Rings Made of DNA

Posted by samzenpus on from the GCAT-grade-stone dept.

fangmcgee writes "Nerd love alert: German researchers have just created the world's smallest wedding rings, measuring less than a thousandth of the width of a human hair. Goethe University professor Alexander Heckel and his doctoral student Thorsten Schmidt made the artificial structures from two interlocking loops of DNA — known as catenane — in a single drop of water."

2 of 80 comments (clear)

  1. Wedding? by FatLittleMonkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In what way are these rings "wedding rings"?

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    Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
  2. Yeah. Try giving that to your girl. by Chas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Geek or no. She wants a goddamn diamond!

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    Chas - The one, the only.
    THANK GOD!!!