Boffin shows pics of germs grown on SPOTTY STUDENTS' MOBES
Feeding the bacteria on your phone, what could go wrong? PICS Dr
Simon Park , a senior lecturer in molecular biology at the
University of Surrey, has unleashed untold horror on the world
in the form of photos of germ colonies on mobile phones. And not
just any germs: he's cultured the things that live on
undergraduate students' faces. Park justifies his activities as
teaching science, blogging  that “As part of BMS1035 Practical
and Biomedical Bacteriology, an undergraduate module that I run,
I get the students to to imprint their mobile phones onto
bacteriological growth media so that we might determine what
they might carry.” Here's just one of the results of his, and
his class', experiments. Your phone has a virus? You got off
easy. Things get even nastier in close-ups, which reveal horrors
like that depicted below. This could be on your mobile phone
right now Park doesn't say if the bugs depicted are likely to
threaten your health, but does observ