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April 14, 2011 04:05 pm

World's Smallest Wedding Rings Made of DNA

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."

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