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Save the date for Phage Futures Congress 2020, coming up Feb 5-6, 2020 (note that the date has changed!) in Washington, DC, USA.

The European Court of Justice has issued a Court Order that enables food companies to continue the use of phages to prevent Listeria on all ready to eat foods in the EU in the absence of a legal EU framework. Using Listeria phages on food h

There’s been lots of talk recently about communication between virus-infected bacterial cells, but it’s actually an old phenomenon. Stephen Abedon (Ohio State University) has published a new review on the history of lysis inhibition, “the G

Save the date for Phage Futures Congress 2020, coming up Feb 5-6, 2020 (note that the date has changed!) in Washington, DC, USA.

PhagoMed has announced it will develop a phage lysin for bacterial vaginosis (targeting Gardnerella vaginalis). This means the company is extending its portfolio, as prior to this it was only working on complete phages. Press Release | News

Marta Lourenço (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues have published a preprint on how inaccessible sites in the mouse gut mucosa serve as a spatial refuge for bacteria, limiting phage predation, and leading to phage-bacterial coexistence that i

Michelle Yang How are strain B and UPEC strains of E. coli similar? How do you select phages for a phage cocktail? Please email me at yang94m@gmail.com.

Michelle Yang How are strain B and UPEC strains of E. coli similar? How do you select phages for a phage cocktail? Please email me at yang94m@gmail.com.

It's Capsid & Tail's one-year anniversary this week! We sent out our first issue on Oct 18, 2018. Since then, we've published 48 issues, including 13 guest articles (authored by 23 guest authors). We've grown to over 600 subscribers, with a

We've been talking about NIAID's new request for applications for phage research; here's the complete funding opportunity announcement. This is an R21 grant mechanism (no clinical trials allowed). NIAID intends to commit $2.5 million in FY

New research by Andrey Shkoporov and colleagues at APC Microbiome in Ireland has shown using longitudinal metagenomics that the human gut virome is actually very stable in individuals, but that each individual tested had their own unique vi

Siobhán O'Brien of the University of Liverpool and colleagues published a paper showing how transposable prophages lead to P. aeruginosa adaptation. They alter iron availability to show that transposable prophages cause P. aeruginosa to evo

Check out this new podcast interview (The Life Scientific, by BBC Radio 4) with Martha Clokie, a University of Leicester phage professor. She talks about how her interests in botany as a child turned into interests in phages. This is a grea

Scientific American magazine just published a nice feature on where phage therapy is at today: great storytelling, nice visuals, plus input from several phage researchers on where phage therapy is going.

Check out this new podcast interview (The Life Scientific, by BBC Radio 4) with Martha Clokie, a University of Leicester phage professor. She talks about how her interests in botany as a child turned into interests in phages. This is a grea

Scientific American magazine just published a nice feature on where phage therapy is at today: great storytelling, nice visuals, plus input from several phage researchers on where phage therapy is going.

We've been talking about NIAID's new request for applications for phage research; here's the complete funding opportunity announcement. This is an R21 grant mechanism (no clinical trials allowed). NIAID intends to commit $2.5 million in FY

It's Capsid & Tail's one-year anniversary this week! We sent out our first issue on Oct 18, 2018. Since then, we've published 48 issues, including 13 guest articles (authored by 23 guest authors). We've grown to over 600 subscribers, with a

Siobhán O'Brien of the University of Liverpool and colleagues published a paper showing how transposable prophages lead to P. aeruginosa adaptation. They alter iron availability to show that transposable prophages cause P. aeruginosa to evo

New research by Andrey Shkoporov and colleagues at APC Microbiome in Ireland has shown using longitudinal metagenomics that the human gut virome is actually very stable in individuals, but that each individual tested had their own unique vi