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14th July 2016
05:13pm BST

The research, carried out at the University of Surrey, also pin pointed the most infectious spot on your phone.
After seeing this, you might not want to go ‘Home’.
Speaking abou the study, Dr Park, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, said:
“As part of a course called Practical and Biomedical Bacteriology, an undergraduate module that I run, I get the students to imprint their mobile phones onto bacteriological growth Petri dishes so that we might determine what they might carry. It’s unusual but very effective way of engaging our students with the often overlooked microbiology of everyday life.”
That’s one lesson they won’t be able to forget for a while.

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