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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

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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

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

Eric Boodman wrote a great article on the background of Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (paywall)

Chen et al. published a groundbreaking new study on the discovery of a new kind of phage transduction that leads to genome hypermobility. You’ve heard of generalized and specialized transduction—now there's "lateral transduction."

Dr. Darren Smith posted a new 24-month postdoc position at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The postdoc will study the ecology and biology of phages in the guts of pre-term infants. Apply by Nov 30, 2018.

Dr. Urmi Bajpai invited phage researchers to join a newly unveiled global research consortium for promoting phage and lysin therapy: the International Bacteriophage Research Consortium. This is a collaboration between Acharya Narendra Dev C

"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 ar

Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life is the memoir of Mallory Smith, whose story inspired us to create Phage Directory. It comes out next week (Mar 12). Mallory was set to receive phage therapy in November 2017 after a Burkholderia cepacia i

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

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

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

Check out this exciting new preprint from the Banfield lab and colleagues. They sequenced DNA from diverse ecosystems and found HUNDREDS of huge phage genomes (up to 716 kbp). The phages they found encode lots of new things phages don't typ