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It’s Phage Picks time! This week, we highlight some new mind-expanding papers — one showing how phage killing might train the immune system like vaccines, one unpacking how temperate phages rewrite bacterial flagella with RNA-guided tools,

This month, Jess went viral with a post about How to Read Papers, we picked some great bread and butter papers, and Jess got to chat with Cytophage about navigating the Canadian regulatory phage maze. Welcome to summer, everyone! This mont

It's Phage Picks time! This week Jess picks another 'bread-and-butter' phage lab paper about how to keep your phages stable (genetically and physically) over the decades, and Jan surfaces a killer overview of all the ways phage + AI is happ

Among the millions of papers published each year, how can you make sure you never touch another irrelevant paper? I’ve never been particularly fast at reading papers. Usually, just skimming a research paper takes me about an hour. Reading a

Another round up! This month, we feature a new Lab Hacks format from Jess, one of our most controversial Capsid posts on AI use in science, and a Phage Picks of some of Jessica's nearest and dearest protocols (she uses these all the time —

"It was right in front of us the whole time." Imperial College London professors José Penadés & Tiago Costa challenged Google's new 'AI co-scientist' with a phage PICI question they'd just solved after years of work. Given their unpublished

Happy 2025 everyone! It's still January so we can still say happy new year! We are finally back after a nice long extended Christmas break + insanity January. Tons of phage news has accumulated — here you go! Hi everyone, Time flies, doesn

Phage + machine learning = amazing strides, yet again! From creating synthetic genomes to building smarter experiments, this month’s Phage Picks issue explores some key papers Jess & Jan keep coming back to! Hello everyone! It’s been a whi

Roundup time! This month we explored phage-based gene editing in the microbiome, high schooler Kate Kelly shared her jam-packed 30 days in Stanford’s Bollyky lab, and Ritah Nakayinga from Kyambogo University discussed her phage cocktail to

How can we harness phage-based technologies to edit bacterial genes in the microbiome? Jesus Fernandez of Eligo Biosciences shares how they're modifying phages to base-edit mouse gut bacteria, and how that opens up new possibilities for tre

It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the sixth rendition of our new format, where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. Hi phage phans, I hope you’re enjoying the summer! There’s a lot packed into this mon

This month, we recap what we learned about AI spreadsheet tools, how phage funding has changed over the years, and the rise of phage research in Latin America! Hi phage friends! It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these — Jan has

What if we could instantly extract information we need from a spreadsheet (like raw plate reader data) in just a click? Can AI help? This week, Jan writes about a project he worked on for Sphinx Bio, where he tried to extract data from spre

This month, we recap what we learned about phage genome analysis tools, phage production pipelines, n of 1 clinical trials, and more! Happy Summer! I hope everyone’s been enjoying the summer heat that’s apparently been sweeping the country

It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the fifth rendition of our new format, where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. Hey hey phage phans, It’s time again for our most well-loved post format — Phage Picks

For this month, we found some super interesting phage papers, heard about phage-vectored vaccine production, and more! Hey everyone, Summer is finally here! But as you know, Jess and I moved to San Francisco, and “summer” is mostly indisti

It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the fourth rendition of our new format (and Jan's favourite..!) where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. (Yes, Jan now reads more phage papers than Jessica, and she's

Round up time! This month we covered why phage researchers are flocking to Australia in July (and California in June!), discussed our 'phage picks' for this month, and shared a very special story from one of the researchers that make up the

Here's the third rendition of our new format: Phage Picks — where we share the papers we keep bookmarked... and keep coming back to. Hi everyone! It's Phage Picks time! This is a new monthly format we're testing out. These are casual recom

We're starting off the year by trying a new format: Phage Picks — where we share the papers we keep bookmarked... and keep coming back to. Hi everyone! We thought we'd kick off the year with a new format. We've been reading phage papers