When Dr. Halverson lost her very dear and devoted dog companion Dustin in 2004, she experimented with ideas to memorialize his DNA..She earned her DVM and MPVM Veterinary Science degrees at the University of California at Davis, and eventually devoted herself to advanced DNA research Working with jewelers, the Life Jewel pendant was born. The colored material wound around the wire helix is the actual DNA. At one stage in its processing, DNA looks like egg white. Normally it is a semi-opaque, white color; in the Life Jewel process the DNA binds a fine, luminescent pigment and forms a smooth ribbon in the groove of the wire helix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJYVTq4sfwk&feature=player_embedded#!