In this combo photo released by Japan's metalworking company Eiwa Industry Co., a human DNA pendants, shaped in a rounded-perfume bottle, top, with a crystal container for the genetic material, bottom left, are shown.

Eiwa Industry, based in central Japanese city of Inazawa, began selling pendants for preserving genetic mementos of deceased people this month, general manager Morihito Ikai said Friday, March 17, 2006.

Made of silver, the pendants cost 50,000 yen (US$428; euro352), which includes the cost of the pendant, a chain and the charge for extracting DNA, that is usually taken from a strand of hair or piece of fingernail.