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Daniela Rothschild-Rodriguez and colleagues published a new paper exploring the role of phages in influencing the mucosal integrity of the human gut, and how these interactions may affect health and disease states. They also cover phage-enc

In the latest episode of the Phage Therapy Today podcast, Carrie-Lynn Langlais Furr, CEO and Co-founder at Bacteriophage & Drug Development Consultants (BDDC) talks about how to navigate the drug development and regulatory waters for phage

The next Viruses of Microbes conference will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia on July 3-7, 2023. The conference marks a new era in viral research which has begun with the recognition of viruses of microorganisms – viruses of bacteria, archaea, a

In this PBS Vitals video, Alok Patel (MD) and Sheena Williams (RN) explore how phage therapy could help humanity win the battle against antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Vésale Bioscience, a Belgian phage therapy company, has been awarded a €1.8m grant from the European Innovation Council to develop a phage therapy diagnostic platform to fight multidrug-resistant infections.

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics announced that the first patient has been dosed in the PHAGE clinical trial, evaluating bacteriophage therapy in adults with cystic fibrosis who carry Pseudomonas aeruginosa in their lungs.

Ben Chan (Center for Phage Biology & Therapy, Yale University) and colleagues report the use of a personalized, inhaled phage therapy for treating P. aeruginosa infections in 9 CF adults, with the goal of selecting phages that target bacter

Ellina Trofimova has developed a new version of her Plaque Size Tool that doesn't require installation on Google Colab.

The UK Parliament's Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages as a way to address antibiotic resistance. Here you can read 34 public letters contributed by the international

Zhou et al. published a new paper in Frontiers in Genetics entitled PhageTailFinder: A Tool for Predicting Bacteriophage Tail-Related Proteins.

The 6th World Congress on Targeting Phage Therapy 2023 will be held on June 1-2, 2023 in Paris, France. The aim of the meeting is to discuss all aspects related to phages and phage therapy. We will highlight the recent innovations and clini

The Phage Innovation Network will be launched by Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Network on Feb 16 2023 with an online event. This network is designed to bring together those in the UK with an interest in bacteriophages, their use and applic

Registration is now open for An Unfinished Life: AMR Awareness Australia: In collaboration with organizations across Australia, Diane Shader Smith and Richard Alm of CARB-X are hosting a multi day, multi city, multi speaker event to premier

Dann Turner and colleagues at the ICTV published a new paper describing the abolishment of the paraphyletic morphological families of Podoviridae, Siphoviridae, and Myoviridae, as well as the order Caudovirales, and the introduction of one

Daniela Rothschild-Rodriguez and colleagues published a new paper exploring the role of phages in influencing the mucosal integrity of the human gut, and how these interactions may affect health and disease states. They also cover phage-enc

Swapnil Ganesh Sanmukh (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia) and colleagues published a new paper in MDPI Cells on accessing the in vivo efficiency of clinically isolated phages against uropathogenic and invasive biofilm-forming Esche

Mellissa Gomez (McMaster University) and colleagues published a new paper describing the selection of stress-resistant Listeria monocytogenes phages, and the challenges in applying them to food production environments.

Joshua D Jones (University of Edinburgh) and colleagues authored a new perspective on why patients should not be transferred between healthcare jurisdictions for phage therapy in the UK.

The Phage Innovation Network will be launched by Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Network on Feb 16 2023 with an online event. This network is designed to bring together those in the UK with an interest in bacteriophages, their use and applic

The study surveyed 19 metagenomic phage-detection tools and benchmarked nine that could be installed and run at scale, comparing performance across fragmented genomes, simulated metagenomes, and real samples. Evaluation of computational pha