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A new phage therapy book edited by Aidan Coffey (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland) and Colin Buttimer (University College Cork, Ireland) has been published by Caister Academic Press. The book is entitled "Bacterial Viruses: Exploitatio

Computational biologist Dr. Alejandro Reyes Muñoz (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) discusses virus and phage basics, phage-host interactions, and the novel coronavirus on the Finding Genius Podcast.

It's been 2 years since Isabelle Carnell-Holdaway, a teenager in the UK with cystic fibrosis, was treated by the Hatfull Lab's Mycobacterium abscessus phages. Here's an update on how she's doing now!

EIT Health Catapult in Germany is having a pitch competition for its regional BioTech category finalists, and one of them is PhagoMed, a phage therapy company out of Austria. Tune in May 26 to watch the pitch!

EIT Health Catapult in Germany is having a pitch competition for its regional BioTech category finalists, and one of them is PhagoMed, a phage therapy company out of Austria. Tune in May 26 to watch the pitch!

Denish Piya (UC Berkeley) and colleagues at the Center for Phage Technology in Texas published a new paper in Scientific Reports on using genome-wide screens to identify Escherichia coli host factors required for propagation of two novel ph

It's been 2 years since Isabelle Carnell-Holdaway, a teenager in the UK with cystic fibrosis, was treated by the Hatfull Lab's Mycobacterium abscessus phages. Here's an update on how she's doing now!

Ortal Yerushalmy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics describing their newly-created Israeli Phage Bank (IPB). Read about their collection of around 300 phages matching around 21 bacterial spe

Eugene Koonin (NCBI) and colleagues published a new paper on a new proposed megataxonomy of the virus world. Simon Roux raves about this paper on Twitter, calling it a "near-complete unification of viral taxonomy", and lists his favourite n

Dr. Panos Kalatzis gives a detailed interview on starting his biotech company Aquatic Biologicals in Greece, which is using phages to target fish pathogens threatening aquaculture.

Phage GIFs galore! Curtis Hoffman (@phagehunter on Twitter) has collected a large assortment of phage GIFs!

Computational biologist Dr. Alejandro Reyes Muñoz (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) discusses virus and phage basics, phage-host interactions, and the novel coronavirus on the Finding Genius Podcast.

Check out this fantastic spotlight of the people and goals behind BCM TAILΦR Labs, a recently-established phage therapy service center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Founders Anthony Maresso, Austen Terwilliger and Sabrina

Phage Directory Sign up to present your research in the upcoming Phage Directory Virtual Events Series! And let us know who you'd like to hear from, or suggest a topic, by contacting us on Slack or via email: events@phage.directory. We'll

Vitalis Phage Therapy Tune in at 11 a.m. IST this Sunday, 24th May for a live discussion with Dr. Gopal Nath, who will talk to us about his experiences with clinical application of phage therapy, presenting phage therapy to medical regulato

The phage community wants virtual events! We're working hard on answering that call. You can now apply to present your research, or nominate a speaker, topic or format via email: events@phage.directory. Formats we're considering: traditio

James Doub (University of Maryland School of Medicine) and colleagues published their successful eradication of a 72-year-old man's prosthetic joint infection with phage therapy, which was done alongside Adaptive Phage Therapeutics and the

What happens to the bystanders of a phage-host interaction? Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phage infection induces the type 7 secretion system in Enterococcus f

Shweta Karambelkar (Indian Institute of Science) and colleagues published a interesting report on how phage Mu uniquely protects its DNA from diverse host defense systems in Nucleic Acids Research. They characterized Mu's "Mom" protein, whi

Oliver Bezuidt (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems that sheds light on Antarctic phage-host interactions. Their metagenomic analysis picked up DISARM, BREX and CRISPR-Cas defense systems i