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Harold Craighead of Cornell says a single E. colibacterium weighs in at 665 femtograms (10-12 grams) and a small virus weighs 10 attograms (10-15 grams). David Dolberg Director of Intellectual Property Sanaria Inc.

Femtograms are 10^-15 and Attograms are 10^-18

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