Scientists have documented microbial communities living in microwave ovens - NewsBlist

SCIENCE NEWS — Scientists have documented microbial communities living in microwave ovens: Even the microwave oven in your kitchen is not immune to bacteria. The irradiating environment within a microwave oven might seem inhospitable to microbes. But swabs from microwave ovens in several different locales identified over 100 bacterial strains, researchers report August 7 in Frontiers in Microbiology. This is the first time that scientists have documented microbial communities living in microwave ovens, according to the researchers... sciencenews.org