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Emily’s Entourage, a nonprofit organization that funds cystic fibrosis research and drug development, has funded four new grants (totaling $790,000 over two years), two of which are phage-related. One was awarded to IPATH researchers to dev

Locus Biosciences signed a $144 million contract with BARDA to support phase II and III clinical trials of LBP-EC01, Locus' CRISPR phage (crPhage™) product.

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics was recognized as a 2020 Champion of Maryland Manufacturing for its efforts to provide emergency phage access to COVID-19 patients with secondary bacterial infections.

Laith Harb (Texas A&M University) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS showing that host cell penetration by the F-pilus-specific ssRNA phage MS2 triggers detachment of the F-pilus.

Luís Melo (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a detailed analysis of how the Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm matrix protects against phage predation.

Xing Wan (KU Leuven and University of Helsinki) and colleagues published a new review in Current Opinion in Biotechnology on phage-based target discovery and its exploitation towards novel antibacterial molecules.

The Indian ‘Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy’ (SBRT) is a platform for phage researchers to share their expertise & resources. SBRT is pleased to announce a webinar on “Knowing the unknown: Approaches to characterize the vast

The next rendition of PHAVES will be a seminar/Q&A with Dr. Emma Bell, Principal Bacteriophage Scientist at FixedPhage, and will take place October 6th at 4PM GMT+1. She'll discuss their phage immobilization technology and how they've impro

Viperins are known to function in the eukaryotic antiviral response, and now they've been found in prokaryotes. Aude Bernheim (Weizmann Institute of Science) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature on prokaryotic viperins, which prot

The use and selection of excipients are critical to stabilize phages in solid formulations. Yajie Zhang (University of Texas at Austin) and colleagues have reviewed the current classes of phage excipients, outstanding challenges with phage

Niels Vander Elst (Ghent University) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics on the characterization of two phage lysins, PlySs2 and PlySs9, which have in vitro lytic activity against bovine mastitis pathogen Streptococcus uberi

What's the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes and virulence genes in complete/near-complete phage genomes? The Millard Lab did an analysis; here are the results.

Clément Girardot wrote a new piece on phage therapy for The Guardian's Global Development section; in it he interviews Tobi Nagel and Martha Clokie of Phages for Global Health.

Micreos has initiated a clinical trial to evaluate a topically-applied phage endolysin as a therapy for Atopic Dermatitis.

The Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, an Indian research institute, has been developing phage cocktails for aquaculture. They've now transferred their phage technology to Salem Microbes Private Ltd, so it can be made available

An international team of scientists are calling for the European Union to enforce non-animal antibody production, and phage display may be the ideal replacement. Report | Press release.

The next rendition of PHAVES will be a seminar/Q&A with Dr. Emma Bell, Principal Bacteriophage Scientist at FixedPhage, and will take place October 6th at 4PM GMT+1. She'll discuss their phage immobilization technology and how they've impro

Hello fellow phage workers - are you modifying phages, genetically or chemically, to improve their ability to act as therapeutics? Attaching toxins so the phage capsid provides specificity to target bacteria? Creating phage based vaccines?

Hi everybody, would anyone be kind enough to share bacterial strain BLT5403? It's part of Novagen's T7 phage kit. Unfortunately it didn't make the move with me and I don't want to buy a whole kit to just get the bacteria. — @Kean_Research v

The longest river of India, the Ganges, is reported for the richest diversity of bacteriophages compared to any other river across the globe. This diversity was formed when bacteriophages were trapped at the origin of the river millions of