An embryologist works on a Petri dish at the Create Health fertility clinic in south London on Thursday 14 August 2013.

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He conducts experiments to detect bacterial growth by swabbing items, cultivating the samples in petri dishes, and examining the resulting bacterial cultures. In an eye-opening video that has now ...