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Karthik Chamakura (Center for Phage Technology and Texas A&M) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Communications on host lysis genes discovered in leviviruses, which are single-stranded RNA phages. They characterized the function

Shannon Miller (Broad Institute) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Protocols on phage-assisted continuous and non-continuous evolution. This method allows directed evolution to occur much faster (100 rounds of evolution in 2 we

Ameneh Khatami (University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new preprint showing therapeutic monitoring of the host-bacterium-phage interaction in a child. They describe how they treated a 7-year-old with a chronic osteoarticular Pseud

Lorraine Draper (APC Microbiome Ireland) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Biology showing the impact of faecal viral transfer (FVT) on the mouse microbiome after antibiotic perturbation. They saw that FVT helped the mice get back

Roberto Molina-Quiroz (Centro de Estudios Científicos, Chile) and colleagues published a new paper in mSphere showing that prophage-dependent neighbor predation in Vibrio cholerae leads to enhanced horizontal gene transfer by natural transf

The WHO's 4th Clinical Antibacterial Pipeline Advisory Group Meeting took place this week. Haileyesus Getahun, MD (Joint Secretariat on AMR at WHO) stated via Twitter that for the first time, available data on phage therapy was set to be ev

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) is working toward a phage-based COVID vaccine — a phage engineered to express epitopes of SARS-CoV2 on the surface of the capsid. Phage-based vaccines are attractive because they are considered safe in the

(POSTPONED TO 2021) Save the date for the next rendition of PHAVES, a seminar with Dr. Jonathan Iredell, MD of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research and University of Sydney on Wed, Dec 16 at 8AM AEDT (Tues, Dec 15 at 4PM Eastern Time

Thanks so much to the labs who reached out in response to our request for Serratia phages last week. In just a few days, the strain was shipped out to the first set of labs for testing. A few days after that, an active phage was found (by R

Join Jean-Paul Pirnay, PhD, Gina Suh, MD, and Nicholas Chia, PhD Nov 30, 2020 12:00 PM Central time for an engaging virtual discussion on phage therapy as a tool in the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections. The talk is entitled "Ba

Good day! I am a 3rd year Medical Technology student from the Philippines and we are currently looking for MS2 Escherichia coli bacteriophage for our thesis project. I hope you can help me to look for the above said bacteriophage sample. Th

The African Phage Forum is a new collaborative network of African phage researchers to promote and sensitize phage research in Africa, created by Dr. Emmanuel Nnadi, Dr. Rita Nakayinga, and Dr. Juliah Khayeli. They aim to motivate and mento

We have started a small association in Switzerland called phageSuisse to bring different actors of phage therapy in Switzerland together. With this association, we launched a small webinar series. The first webinar will be on December 1st b

Earlier this month we posted that Adaptive Phage Therapeutics received emergency FDA authorization to treat a group of COVID-19 patients in Texas with A. baumannii infections. Now, they've received expanded access authorization to use their

Ruby Lin (Wesmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia) and colleagues published a Nature Microbiology blog post on their work toward establishing an Australian Phage Network. This post follows up on their Nature Microbiology paper fro

Fernando Gordillo Altamirano and Jeremy Barr (Monash University) published a new perspective in Current Opinion in Biotechnology entitled "Unlocking the next generation of phage therapy: the key is in the receptors". They argue that identif

Check out this ID Hub podcast, where Juandem Agendia and Sarah Alexander of the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC, UK) discuss phages, the function of the NCTC, and the importance of depositing phages in the NCTC collection to impr

Britt Koskella (Associate Professor in Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley) has received the Fleming Prize from the Microbiology Society (awarded to an early career researcher who has achieved an outstanding resear

Locus Biosciences signed a contract with CARB-X to advance a $14 million precision medicine program to develop their crPhage™ product, which targets Klebsiella pneumoniae infections.

The C-SNIPER project (Campylobacter-Specific Nullification via Innovative Phage-mediated Enteropathogen Reduction), led by AZTI (a technology center in Spain) received funding from the European Institute of Innovation & Technology. The proj