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Vivek Mutalik (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) and colleagues have published a new preprint on high-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli. Through systematic, genome-wide loss-of-function and gain-of-function studi

Alexandra Petrovic Fabijan (Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia) and colleagues published their safe IV treatment of 13 critically-ill, septic patients with a GMP-prepared S. aureus phage cocktail in Nature Microbiology. Jon

7-year old Australian patient successfully treated with community-sourced phages The staff of the Infectious Diseases and Orthopaedics departments of the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the Westmead Institute for Medical Research Irede

SciPhage is a women-led biotech company out of Colombia aiming to bring science into society and to support female scientists who want to start a biotech business. To get their Salmonella phage cocktail to market, they have announced a fund

The new Bacterial-Viral BRC (BV-BRC), a collaboration between the PATRIC/RAST and IRD/ViPR teams, will be offering a joint bacterial and viral workshop from March 23 through 27 at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL.

In case you missed it, last week, along with the help of Sabrina Green and Ella Balasa, we provided live coverage of Phage Futures Congress 2020. Find highlights on our website, and check out coverage on Twitter (#PhageFutures) and Instagra

First jumbophages and megaphages... now we have 'huge phages'. Basem Al-Shayeb (UC Berkeley) and colleagues have identified and classified hundreds of new giant phage genomes (one as large as 735 kb) from human, animal and environmental mic

The Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) conference (June 22-25 2020, Guelph, Ontario) will have an 'All about Phages' session! Register here.

It's hard to learn about prophage biology from genome sequence data alone. In a new paper, Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues at the University of Liverpool show us how they've used transcriptomic data to explore prophage bio

Julie Callanan (APC Microbiome Ireland) and colleagues have greatly expanded the number of known ssRNA phage genomes. As of June 2019, only 12 were available in NCBI, but they sifted through 82 publicly available metatranscriptomes and dete

We've seen Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) in the news a lot lately—here's an interview with Greg Merril, APT's CEO, a podcast interview with a patient whose leg was saved by APT's phages, and a news article on APT's selection for Startup

Armata Pharmaceuticals and Innoviva have announced a $25 Million investment to support Armata's phage cocktail development.

BiomX announces dual listing on the Tel-Aviv stock exchange.

Prof. Daniel Nelson's lab at University of Maryland has been awarded funds to study endolysins as a treatment for acne caused by C. acnes.

Phages in space! Dr. Vatsan Raman, a UW-Madison biochemist, is sending phages and bacteria to the International Space Station for an experiment on how microgravity and radiation affect phage-host interactions.

The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ECCMID) (April 18-21 2020, in Paris, France) will include several phage therapy sessions.

In case you missed it, last week, along with the help of Sabrina Green and Ella Balasa, we provided live coverage of Phage Futures Congress 2020. Find highlights on our website, and check out coverage on Twitter (#PhageFutures) and Instagra

The new Bacterial-Viral BRC (BV-BRC), a collaboration between the PATRIC/RAST and IRD/ViPR teams, will be offering a joint bacterial and viral workshop from March 23 through 27 at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL.

SciPhage is a women-led biotech company out of Colombia aiming to bring science into society and to support female scientists who want to start a biotech business. To get their Salmonella phage cocktail to market, they have announced a fund

7-year old Australian patient successfully treated with community-sourced phages The staff of the Infectious Diseases and Orthopaedics departments of the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the Westmead Institute for Medical Research Irede