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If you know anyone who hasn't heard Tom and Steffanie's story yet, here's an in-depth podcast interview with them on the Super Awesome Science Show that you can share. It also goes into phage use in the livestock industry in an interview wi

Texas A&M University is a major hub of phage research, and the Center for Phage Technology there is the only state-funded phage research center in the US. Learn about the center and their involvement in Tom Patterson's phage therapy case he

As a specialist in infectious diseases, I have been interested in phage therapy as long as I can remember, but only recently have I felt comfortable saying this out loud. - Dr. David Pride, UCSD. Read more about his perspective in this arti

Marco Cafora and colleagues have developed a zebrafish model of cystic fibrosis and used it to show that phage therapy can treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa (and modulate immune response in the fish). This is the first time that phage therapy ha

Filter results of BLAST analysis by viral host species with this new tool: VHost-Classifier, created by Ezra Kitson and Curtis Suttle. (Paper / Github)

Prasanth Manohar I have completed my Ph.D. at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. My research project deals with the characterization of bacteriophages infecting E. coli, K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter species. I have expertise

The World Health Organization wants to better understand the current pre-clinical antibacterial R&D landscape! Companies, institutions and individuals doing pre-clinical work targeting any of the WHO Priority Pathogens, TB and/or C. diffici

A new NIH funding announcement involving phages: exploratory/developmental research into microbial-based cancer therapy ("Bugs as Drugs"). Excerpt: "Utilizing bacteria, archaebacteria, bacteriophages and other non-virus microorganisms, this

The University of Pittsburgh has established the Roger W. Hendrix Fund to honor a giant in the phage field who was lost too soon. Please consider contributing to this endowed fund to support and encourage future generations of scientists an

Dr. Ellie Jameson's lab at Warwick University is now offering reproducible, standardized tests to investigate phages as targeted bactericidal agents. Also available: optimized phage methods to investigate interactions with other antimicrobi

Dr. Benjamin Chan of Yale University continues his treatment of patients in need with phages. Most recently, his phages were administered to a 26-year-old woman named Ella Balasa from Richmond, Virginia, who traveled to Yale for treatment.

The Perfect Predator came out this week! Expect a lot of new mainstream press for phages over the coming weeks/months! This week has already brought coverage from Wired and People, and tomorrow morning at 9 AM, Steffanie Strathdee and Tom P

Check out our new paper on sourcing phages for compassionate use, which was published in the journal Microbiology Australia last week!

Michael Van Delle University of Toronto researchers have developed a novel phage susceptibility testing platform. To understand the need for such a solution, Adventus Research + Consulting is reaching out to phage community experts, stakeho

Michael Van Delle University of Toronto researchers have developed a novel phage susceptibility testing platform. To understand the need for such a solution, Adventus Research + Consulting is reaching out to phage community experts, stakeho

Check out this extremely informative Twitter thread by Simon Roux, which breaks down his new preprint on the pervasiveness of Inoviruses. Detect Inoviruses in your own sequence data with this tool (Github). We want to encourage more scienti

Carol E. Zhou and colleagues report a new phage annotation pipeline called multiPhATE. Preprint and Github.

A new virome twin study! J. Leonardo Moreno-Gallego and colleagues show that virome and microbiome diversity correlate, and in contrast to a prior study, adult twins DO have more similar viromes than unrelated individuals. They suggest that

Rob Lavigne at KU Leuven is seeking comments on his new preprint on patents related to phage use in agriculture. Comment under the paper on BioRxiv, or tweet @RobLavigne1!

This commentary by Jens H. Kuhn and colleagues may convince you to care more about the need for cataloguing viral genomes.