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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.

Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens The Adriaenssens group at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), in collaboration with the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia, is looking to recruit a PhD student on a fully funded projec

Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens We are recruiting a student at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) on the role phages play in the establishment of the gut microbiota, particularly focused on beneficial bifidobacteria. The student will join the

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

We collectively don’t know much about how phages work in cocktails, or how best to optimize phage therapy when multiple phages are combined. Rosanna Wright (University of York) and colleagues have shown, using P. aeruginosa and pairs of pha

You may have heard of the Nagoya Protocol in the context of isolating or sharing phages or bacteria. But what is the Nagoya Protocol, and how does it apply to phage research and development? This week, we've put together a primer to help ex

The Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) at UCSD has published the first issue of its new quarterly newsletter. This quarter's issue features an interview with Dr. Hedieh Attai, a postdoc at IPATH, along with in

Here's a new phage therapy podcast episode featuring Dr. Aleksandra Petrovic-Fabijan and Dr. Ruby Lin from the Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Westmead, Australia. [Medical Journal of Australia Podcast, 21 mins]

Related to the new NIAID request for applications (RFA) for phage studies, here's a videocast of the NIAID council meeting where they discuss their phage interests and why they're going to fund phage studies now and in the future. Start wat

Kevin Yehl of MIT and colleagues have developed a high-throughput strategy to genetically engineer host range-determining regions within phage tail fiber proteins to create libraries of millions of phages with different receptor binding cap

Sara Clifton of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and colleagues have used population modeling to examine the role of latent prophages in bacterial populations in response to antibiotic treatment. They show that antibiotics can

Michele Mutti and Lorenzo Corsini of the phage biotech company PhagoMed have published a review on GMP production of phages for therapy. They review the literature covering technical issues and approaches to increase robustness at each step

The Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) at UCSD has published the first issue of its new quarterly newsletter. This quarter's issue features an interview with Dr. Hedieh Attai, a postdoc at IPATH, along with in