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The Phages4Cure project is a German initiative (run by the Fraunhofer ITEM at Braunschweig in partnership with the DSMZ) to develop phage cocktails to treat P. aeruginosa in the lung. Fraunhofer ITEM has been manufacturing biologics to GMP

Phages have been in the news around the world this week! Phage therapy made the cover of Maisonneuve, a quarterly Canadian magazine (subscription required), Quanta Magazine did an in-depth feature on how phage resistance evolves differently

Phages have been in the news around the world this week! Phage therapy made the cover of Maisonneuve, a quarterly Canadian magazine (subscription required), Quanta Magazine did an in-depth feature on how phage resistance evolves differently

The Phages4Cure project is a German initiative (run by the Fraunhofer ITEM at Braunschweig in partnership with the DSMZ) to develop phage cocktails to treat P. aeruginosa in the lung. Fraunhofer ITEM has been manufacturing biologics to GMP

Locus Biosciences announced it has opened enrollment for a Phase 1b clinical trial evaluating a CRISPR Cas3-enhanced phage (crPhage™) product that will target E. coli causing urinary tract infections. This is the world's first controlled cl

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics was awarded a $10.2-million contract with the US Department of Defense. The funds will go toward developing PhageBank™️, the company's personalized phage therapy system, including conducting a clinical trial.

Cristina Howard-Varona (Ohio State University) and colleagues published a new paper on phage-specific metabolic reprogramming of 'virocells' (infected cells). This work digs into the question of how phage-infected cells affect their surroun

BBC News has listed Isabelle Carnell Holdaway's phage therapy case as one of the biggest 'Man on the Moon' breakthroughs of 2019.

A Minnesota man's leg amputation was prevented by phages from Adaptive Phage Therapeutics. News story: Star Tribune

New paper in Evolution by Animesh Gupta (UCSD) and colleagues: lambda phage overcomes a perturbation in its host-viral genetic network through mutualism and evolution of life history traits.

New bioinformatics tool published by Qiaoliang Liu (Jilin University) for identifying phages from metagenomic bins and contigs: Virus Finding & Mining (VFM).

BBC News has listed Isabelle Carnell Holdaway's phage therapy case as one of the biggest 'Man on the Moon' breakthroughs of 2019.

Cytophage Technologies is an up and coming phage biotech company out of Winnipeg, Canada: here's an introduction (including how the founder treated his own foot with phages, and plans to start by breaking into the poultry market). News stor

A Minnesota man's leg amputation was prevented by phages from Adaptive Phage Therapeutics. News story: Star Tribune

New paper in Evolution by Animesh Gupta (UCSD) and colleagues: lambda phage overcomes a perturbation in its host-viral genetic network through mutualism and evolution of life history traits.

New bioinformatics tool published by Qiaoliang Liu (Jilin University) for identifying phages from metagenomic bins and contigs: Virus Finding & Mining (VFM).

Cytophage Technologies is an up and coming phage biotech company out of Winnipeg, Canada: here's an introduction (including how the founder treated his own foot with phages, and plans to start by breaking into the poultry market). News stor

Sci Phage, a Colombian phage biotech company commercializing a Salmonella phage cocktail for use in chicken farms, is one of three winners of the Latin American startup accelerator program GaneshaLab. GaneshaLab will support winning compani

NIAID will renew funding ($102.5 million over 7 years) for the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), and this time it includes funds for a phage therapy study! The ARLG is a global consortium of scientific experts that leads a c

Biocrusts are photosynthetic hotspots in deserts that face an uncertain future due to climate change-induced changes in rainfall. Marc Van Goethem (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs) and colleagues have published a study in mBio characterizin