Community post

A year ago on Twitter, Jeremy Barr (Monash University) shared a picture of several 40-year old phage stocks, and asked "what should we do with them?" People said 'check titre!' 'get WGS' and 'are they the same as the stock phages we've all been using?' Now, his lab has published the results in a new paper in MSystems (led by Dinesh Subedi) showing temporal stability and genetic diversity of 48-year-old T-series phages. Check out Jeremy's Twitter thread for an explainer!