DNA tattoos are the final frontier of love

Everence is a powdery substance synthesized from a sample of DNA, something as simple as a few thousand cells from a swab of a person's inner cheek, or from cremated ashes

It all began with a floating leg. Or, more specifically, an idea came tattooed on the leg of a woman kicking through the water in Key Largo, Florida, seen clear as day through Patrick Duffy’s diving goggles. Duffy, who ran a scuba diving therapeutic programmes for military veterans with his father, was inspired by the tattoo; it was her dedication to her late husband, a Navy SEAL killed in combat.

“In that moment, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to turn that tattoo into a reliquary?’” Duffy said. “To put a piece of something she cared about, maybe even her husband,