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Congratulations to Jesca Nakavuma and her team of phage researchers in Uganda for winning an $800,000 grant from the African Union. The grant will support their development of phage products combating antibiotic resistant bacteria in fish.

Christian Møller-Olsen et al. just published an article in Scientific Reports showing that an E. coli phage can kill its host intracellularly, and that it kills more efficiently when human bladder epithelial cells are present. This corrobor

The dairy industry has historically seen phages as a threat to productions, but Samuel D. Alcaine, a Cornell professor researching dairy fermentations, makes the point here that phages could also be beneficial to the industry.

Lytic phages are usually thought to be best for therapy, but this recent review by Rodrigo Monteiro et al. makes a case for giving temperate phages a second look.

Sarah Kronheim et al. published a paper in Nature this week on a new mechanism of chemical phage defense in Streptomyces. Here's a News and Views piece by Martha Clokie and an Ars Technica piece on the work.

A recent re-estimation of annual deaths caused by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) has come up with a number almost 7 times higher than the CDC estimate made in 2010. This suggests a need for better surveillance and reporting systems fo

Karin Moelling et al. published a paper this week in Viruses calling for urgent changes in regulation to allow phage therapy to proceed for patients in need. The authors are also championing a petition for the cause — learn more at http://p

Tobi Nagel, founder and president of the nonprofit Phages for Global Health, was selected as a 2018 Moonshot Fellow by the Kravis Leadership Institute. The award recognizes leaders of innovative initiatives that positively impact the lives

PhagoMed, a Vienna-based phage therapy company, was just awarded a Phoenix Award. The award honours young and successful companies that serve as role models for high-class research and entrepreneurship in Austria. Congratulations!

The European Research Council just released the results of its Consolidator Grants 2018 competition, and two prominent phage research labs have been funded! Many congratulations to the labs of Rob Lavigne of KU Leuven, who will tap into pha

A new paper by Gerlach et al. shows that a phage gene can help MRSA evade immune defenses. See also this commentary on the paper.

Another mini phage therapy documentary is out! This one was made by Freethink, is 12 min long, and documents the amazing story of "Paige's Phages" – Pseudomonas phages from Ben Chan's lab at Yale helped a young woman regain her deterioratin

Kathryn Kauffman and Martin Polz of MIT have developed new ways of streamlining phage propagation and titration methods to save us all time and materials. You can also find the protocols here on Protocols.io!

A group of students from the Technical University of Munich won second prize in the 2018 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition for their work creating a cell-free phage propagation system called Phactory. Amazing w

We are actively seeking Klebsiella phages for a patient. If you have Klebsiella phages, please get in touch with us ASAP. Please spread the word!

Buzzfeed made an excellent mini documentary on phage therapy (~15 min), and it’s on Netflix! It’s part of a series called “Follow This” and it features both Ben Chan and Steffanie Strathdee.

Another US patient has been successfully treated with phages. This is thanks to Ben Chan at Yale, who found, prepared and provided the phages for a 23-year-old woman with Cystic Fibrosis.

Martha Clokie has an exciting, fully-funded PhD opportunity to work on soil phages in collaboration with APS Biocontrol Ltd. Apply by Jan. 6, 2019.

If you’d like to support a woman’s phage therapy treatment at the Eliava Phage Therapy Center in Tbilisi, Georgia, you can donate here.

It's World Antibiotic Awareness Week! This is a WHO campaign to educate the public about antimicrobial resistance. The Wellcome Trust is bringing together 300 scientists, politicians, civil society and industry leaders and academics to talk