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Great news for BiomX, a company developing custom phage therapies to treat microbiome-based diseases, which just raised $32 million in series B financing!

Cell Host & Microbe just released a special issue devoted to phages!. This includes four free featured reviews, one of which is this article by Kaitlyn Kortright, Benjamin Chan, Jonathan Koff and Paul Turner of Yale University, where they d

Fernando L. Gordillo Altamirano and Jeremy Barr from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia have published a new review: Phage Therapy in the Post-Antibiotic Era. Their paper includes a nice timeline of phage therapy history and a beauti

Stephen Wandro and colleagues at the University of California, Irvine have published a new paper on Enterococcus faecium phage evolution. His experiments, which he presented at Kisaco Research's North American Microbiome Congress last week,

Intralytix's phage clinical trial (treating E. coli in IBD patients) at Mt. Sinai hospital has begun! Here's a video interview with two Mt. Sinai doctors involved in the trial

Phages for Global Health has announced a call for applications for its first West Africa Phage Workshop, which will take place July 7 - 20, 2019, at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. Apply now!

Review in Cell Host & Microbe by Kortright, Chan, Koff and Turner (Yale) on the history of phage therapy and why it is regaining interest as multidrug-resistant infections rise. It compares phage therapy with chemical antibiotics and their

Heather Hendrickson Auckland, New Zealand Phage Friends! We need help! We have processed over 300 soil samples looking for phages on Paenibacillus larvae... (the bee pathogen) here in NZ. Have you ever looked SO HARD for a phage and not fou

The 4th annual OSU Viromics Workshop is May 8-10, 2019. The workshop kicks off with a mini-symposium, then introduces students and postdocs (and possibly early career faculty) to the informatics tools available to develop biological underst

Guy Schleyer and colleagues published a new paper on "in-plaque" mass spec imaging to visualize what happens during (algal) viral infection. Here's the original paper and a blog post on the work.

Robert Edwards and (many!) colleagues have published an exciting new preprint on the phylogeography and evolution of crAssphage around the world.

Anushila Chatterjee and colleagues published a new preprint showing that phage resistance in enterococci leads to reduced antibiotic resistance and reduced mouse gut colonization.

Heather Hendrickson Auckland, New Zealand Phage Friends! We need help! We have processed over 300 soil samples looking for phages on Paenibacillus larvae... (the bee pathogen) here in NZ. Have you ever looked SO HARD for a phage and not fou

A perspective on phage therapy as an anti-superbug option in India.

The UK government is making some new plans to tackle antibiotic resistance, including new incentives for pharma.

Ampliphi Biosciences just published new pre-clinical data on its anti-Staphylococcus aureus phage cocktail.

At Phage Futures 2019, Kisaco offered attendees access to speakers' slides through an exit survey. We also ran a three-question survey about the kinds of events readers wanted to attend. Our 2019 survey is now closed; current site feedback

NIAID just issued a request for comments and suggestions on its Antibacterial Resistance Research Framework. Details: NIAID laid out 7 approaches for tackling AMR in 2014 (including exploring phage therapy!), and they're updating these appr

Voting in the ISVM (International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms) elections is open NOW through Feb 3! Check out the candidate bios here and vote here.

We are still seeking Citrobacter phages to treat a sea turtle's antibiotic-resistant shell infection. If you can help, please email staff@phage.directory! Progress so far: Good news! At least one phage active against the turtle's Citrobact