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The Evergreen International Phage Meeting is happening Aug 6-11, 2023, live in Olympia, Washington, USA! This is an in-person meeting, better known as Phage Camp! Come present your phage work, climb mountains with other phage scientists, pl

The 4th International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance, organized jointly by the CAS in Botany, University of Madras, and Water and Steam Chemistry Division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Facilities, will

Phage Germany is an initiative that aims to promote awareness and adoption of phage therapy, emphasizing the need to educate doctors and pharmacists to improve patient outcomes and combat AMR.

UCSD PREPARE is hosting a phage seminar ‘From Bog to Bedside' with Steffanie Strathdee on June 29, 2023 at 1:30 pm PT.

TechLink Health has released two phage podcasts on defeating superbugs and the role of phage therapy: one with Steffanie Strathdee, Co-Director of IPATH, and one with Rob McBride, CEO of Felix Biotechnology.

University of Toronto has received a $5 million dollar gift to start a phage therapy center in Canada, to be led by infectious disease microbiologist Greg German MD, PhD. It will include creation of a professorship in phage therapy research

A new paper published in Microbiology Spectrum by Magdalena Unterer (Helmholtz Centre Munich) describes a high-throughput method for identifying and characterizing phages for phage therapy, revealing cell-to-cell variations in phage kinetic

Elliot Macdonald and colleagues at Newcastle University have identified a new anti-phage system called Shield, found in Pseudomonas, made of a core component ShdA and a membrane-bound protein with an RmuC domain, which provides a new mechan

Maria Villalba (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) and colleagues describe in PNAS their new optical nanomotion method to test single-bacterium viability and antibiotic response in 1-2 hours using a basic microscope, a c

Lene Bens (KU Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues published a perspective on phage therapy for Hidradenitis Suppurativa, highlighting the unique challenge and opportunity for personalized treatment of a complex, inflammatory disease.

Streptomyces lividans, a model filamentous Gram-positive bacterium with conserved contractile-injection-system gene clusters, makes phage tail-like particles (SLPs) that stay in the cytoplasm instead of being released. Without SLPs, aerial

The Evergreen International Phage Meeting is happening Aug 6-11, 2023, live in Olympia, Washington, USA! This is an in-person meeting, better known as Phage Camp! Come present your phage work, climb mountains with other phage scientists, pl

Dear phage researchers, You’re invited to participate in a new initiative to draft guidelines for managing phage banks, led by Tobi Nagel (Phages for Global Health) and Francesca Hodges (Innovate UK KTN). Stage 1 (online survey: OPEN NOW):

Phage Therapy Today released a podcast featuring Dr. Frenk Smrekar, founder and CEO at JAFRAL, discussing the importance of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) in phage therapy.

The special edition of "Microorganisms" titled "The Phage: Biology and Therapeutic Use" is open. Guest editors David Harper and Richard James invite you to submit by July 31, 2023.

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics has entered into a collaboration and license agreement with the Israeli Phage Therapy Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Medical Center. The agreement grants APT exclusive rights to make, u

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics has received $12 million from Deerfield Management and the AMR Action Fund as part of a new $24 million investment.

PhageLab is a Chile-based AI-powered phage biotech company selling phage biocontrol to livestock producers. Their technology is a deep epidemiological analysis algorithm that identifies phages to match target bacteria, based on unique data

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic, progressive liver disease. Masataka Ichikawa (Keio University, Japan) and colleagues from BiomX have shown in a new paper that oral and oral+IV administration of a phage cocktail supresses

Thu Vu Phuc Nguyen and colleagues have a new preprint showing that when multiple phages infect the same cell, they slow or even prevent each other from entering the cell. Check out his Twitter thread!