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Ryan Cook (University of Nottingham) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbiome showing how a hybrid assembly of an agricultural slurry virome revealed a diverse and stable community with the potential to alter the metabolism and vi

Steven Sutcliffe (McGill University), Michael Shamash and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing how common medications lead to prophage induction in human gut bacteria. They tested anti-inflammatory, chemotherapy, mild analges

Ahmad Hassan (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and University of Guelph) and colleagues published a new review on phages as both friends and foes in therapeutic and biocontrol applications. They first detail the reasons for the antimicrobia

Milan Gerovac (University of Würzburg, Germany) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio — they used Grad-seq (gradient profiling by sequencing) to get a comprehensive view of RNA and protein complexes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa under st

Karishma Bisht (Texas Tech University) and colleagues published a new paper in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes showing the impact of temperature-dependent phage expression on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation. Their work suggests that p

Phage has made the Washington Post! The article, written by Daphne Miller, a clinical professor at UCSF, describes how most viruses around us are benign, while some are lifesaving. She interviews Saima Aslam, Paul Turner, and Ken Cadwell ab

Sandro Sulakvelidze, CEO of Intralytix, talks phages for food poisoning in this podcast episode by Gastropod entitled 'Phage against the machine'. Gastropod looks at food through the lens of science and history.

Phage Directory (& friends) are now on Clubhouse! This is a new app for drop-in audio-only discussions around a topic. It's still only for iPhone users, and requires an invite, so ask around (or ask us!) if you need one. We've now hosted tw

Last chance to register for the 3rd Bacteriophage Therapy Summit, March 23-25! Accelerate the discovery and translation of bacteriophage research into targeted therapeutics that demonstrate clinical efficacy with expert speakers from FDA, B

Fatma Abdelrahman (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt) has launched a new webpage for Women in Phage in collaboration with Phage Directory. The new organization aspires to create a community where all phage scientists — and partic

PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research journal is currently seeking manuscripts for a special issue with a dedicated focus on Phage Informatics and AI. The special issue will focus on all aspects of computational analysis and applicatio

The Oxford Bacteriophage Conference — Phages 2021 will be held (most likely) virtually Sept 7-8, 2021. The conference will showcase phage research and applications in medicine, food, and biotechnology. The conference is chaired by Prof Mart

Rafal Mostowy (Jagielloński University, Poland) asked for a list of top 10 phage-related articles, which can be used as a part of an introductory course to new students working on phages. Comment with your list of papers on Twitter!

NIAID has awarded $2.5 million in grants to 12 institutes around the world to support research on phage therapy! These awards represent NIAID’s first series of grants focused exclusively on research on phage therapy. Congrats to all recipie

PhagePro Inc., a Boston-based phage biotech company, is pleased to announce that it recently received a total of $3 million under an NIH Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant and an NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) announced that the FDA has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for PhageBank™ phage therapy for the treatment of Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis (DFO). This is the third successful IND appli

Enea Maffei (University of Basel) and colleagues published a preprint on their systematic exploration of a new panel of 66 Escherichia coli phages, which is now available for the community. They designed the collection to be used as a refer

Brandon Berryhill (Emory University) and colleagues published a research article exploring potential efficacy of a phage seemingly ideal for combined phage and antibiotic treatment. Although the phage PYO^Sa is able to kill S. aureus at hig

Fazal Mehmood Khan (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and colleagues published a research paper on a novel endolysin isolated from an Acinetobacter baumannii phage with high antibacterial activity against multiple gram-negative microbes. The nov

Later this month, leading drug developers, academics and clinical researchers will come together at the 3rd Bacteriophage Therapy Summit to address their translation challenges, from characterization of phages through to clinical developmen