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CTV News in Canada has done a feature on phage therapy, which follows a Canadian cystic fibrosis patient as she travels to Yale University for phage treatment.

The Dutch phage company Micreos has urged members of the European Parliament to support authorization of its product, Listex, saying the EU's public health directorate has failed to appropriately regulate the product (which is intended to t

Actiphage is a commercially-available, phage-based diagnostic developed by PBD Biotech for detection of live mycobacteria. New paper describing how Actiphage works | Press release

The VEGA Symposium will happen March 22-23, 2020 in Oakland, CA. Hosted by the Joint Genome Institute, the goals are to bring together a “Viral Ecogenomics” community to foster discussion on how to capture and characterize uncultivated viru

Danish Malik at Loughborough University is hiring a research associate to work on phage therapeutic process development, including strategies for production, purification, encapsulation and process monitoring.

Joseph Bondy-Denomy and David Agard at UCSF are hiring a postdoc related to their recent work on how a phage nucleus-like structure shields its DNA from CRISPR.

The Dutch phage company Micreos has urged members of the European Parliament to support authorization of its product, Listex, saying the EU's public health directorate has failed to appropriately regulate the product (which is intended to t

Thanks so much to Sylvain Moineau at Laval University, David Speicher at McMaster University, and Hany Anany at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for hosting us these last couple of weeks! It's been fantastic to have the opportunity to prese

Danish Malik at Loughborough University is hiring a research associate to work on phage therapeutic process development, including strategies for production, purification, encapsulation and process monitoring.

Joseph Bondy-Denomy and David Agard at UCSF are hiring a postdoc related to their recent work on how a phage nucleus-like structure shields its DNA from CRISPR.

Thanks so much to Sylvain Moineau at Laval University, David Speicher at McMaster University, and Hany Anany at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for hosting us these last couple of weeks! It's been fantastic to have the opportunity to prese

School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT, Vellore ICBRAMR ’19 organized by the School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT, Vellore aims to bring together Indian and International communities (scientists, students, and postdocs) from academi

Actiphage is a commercially-available, phage-based diagnostic developed by PBD Biotech for detection of live mycobacteria. New paper describing how Actiphage works | Press release

Dr. Thomas Böttcher, head of an Emmy Noether junior research group at the University of Konstanz in Germany has received an ERC Consolidator Grant (around 2 million Euro over 5 years) to study chemical factors that control the transition of

Two groups have published papers showing how jumbo phages can create nucleus-like structures in their hosts to protect phage DNA from CRISPR-Cas systems. Read Senén Mendoza (UCSF) and colleagues' paper on how this works for a Pseudomonas ph

The VEGA Symposium will happen March 22-23, 2020 in Oakland, CA. Hosted by the Joint Genome Institute, the goals are to bring together a “Viral Ecogenomics” community to foster discussion on how to capture and characterize uncultivated viru

The Turner lab at Yale has successfully treated 13 patients with phages so far. Now, the team has been awarded support from the Blavatnik Fund, which helps Yale scientists commercialize their discoveries. The support has made it possible fo

This week, Dr. Urmi Bajpai, a phage researcher in New Delhi, India and co-creator of the International Bacteriophage Research Consortium, tells us about a public phage therapy lecture her Consortium held last month to raise awareness of pha

Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado) and colleagues have used transposon library screening and RNA sequencing to thoroughly investigate the interaction of E. faecalis with a virulent phage. They show that phage predation can influen

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has announced its support of a phage project through a Sinergia Grant of more than CHF 3 million. This is a joint project between Prof. Martin Loessner of ETH Zurich, Prof. Jonas Marschall of Ber