It's news to exactly no one that our smartphone screens are unclean, but these pictures will send you straight for the anti-bacterial wipes.
As part of his biomedical bacteriology undergraduate course at the University of Surry in the UK, senior lecturer in molecular bacteriology, Simon Park, got his students to imprint their smartphones onto bacteriological growth Petri dishes so they could see what life those innocuous surfaces might be harbouring. What they found was a veritable microcosm of bacteria sourced from our various orifices and the environment around us.
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Here's what's growing on your smartphone screen
Source: Science Alert
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