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One hundred personalized phage treatments, combined! Not only did Jean-Paul Pirnay and colleagues at the Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Belgium provide phages for 100 cases, they also published a full analysis of the outcomes! This led Nature Microbiology to write an editorial advocating for phage therapy development (win!). See also this commentary on the paper from Jon Iredell and colleagues, and this blog post and Twitter thread by coauthor Sabrina Green, who breaks down the main learnings.