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Phage Directory Our next PHAVES event will take place Aug. 4 at 11:00 AM EST / 8:30 PM IST. We'll be interviewing Pranav Johri and Apurva Virmani Johri, founders of Vitalis Phage Therapy, about their impressive progress improving access to

Phage Directory We'd like to give a shout-out to our new volunteers, M. R. Madhav (phage protocols curator for our future phage protocol compendium), Curtis Hoffmann (Twitter and LinkedIn), and Lizzie Richardson (Capsid & Tail feature editi

Innovative Solutions Canada Innovative Solutions Canada is looking to fund small businesses developing phytosanitary treatment options to control plant pests. Maybe a job for phages?

Elizabeth Svoboda wrote a Nature Outlook article diving into the current state of phage therapy options for cystic fibrosis patients, and initiatives working to make this a reality. We're thrilled to see Phage Directory highlighted in this

The aquaculture industry continues to move toward phage therapy; here's a recent review published in Antibiotics by Justyna Kowalska (Proteon Pharmaceuticals) colleagues. Read the highlights in this article on The Fish Site.

Christopher Duplessis and Biswajit Biswas (US Naval Medical Research Center) published a new systematic review in Antibiotics on topical phage therapy for chronically infected wounds. They also discuss their preparations for a phase II rand

Legesse Garedew Kifelew (Flinders University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Microbiology showing efficacy of a cGMP-produced phage cocktail in treating diabetic mouse wound infections caused by MRSA. They applied th

Here's a streamlined new method for producing phages (and removing endotoxin) for personalized phage therapy, published in Nature Protocols by Tiffany Luong (San Diego State University) and colleagues.

Some bacteria release colicins to kill competitors by carefully timing lysis for part of their population at a time. But group B colicins don't come with lysis genes, so how do cells safely release them? Stefanie Spriewald (LMU Munich, Germ

Multicopy plasmids contribute to antimicrobial resistance gene transfer, and although many don't contain mobility genes, they've been observed to contain phage fragments. Lorena Rodríguez-Rubio (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) and colleagu

We don't know much about phages in groundwater reservoirs, even though bacteria in these environments are thought to influence biogeochemical cycles. Ole Hylling (Aarhus University, Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in Scientifi

Only a handful of prophage genomes targeting the phytopathogen Erwinia are available. In a new paper published in Frontiers in Microbiology, Nikita Zrelovs (Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre) and colleagues delved into temperate

Some phages attach to bacterial flagella, and thus have to withstand high drag and torque. But how? Joshua Hardy, Rhys Dunstan (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Communications that provides new in

“What the Phage” combines bacteriophage identification tools with downstream annotation and classification in a parallel Nextflow workflow. It scales to thousands of datasets and helps users assess cases where tools disagree. bioRxiv

Our next PHAVES event will take place Aug. 4 at 11:00 AM EST / 8:30 PM IST. We'll be interviewing Pranav Johri, founder of Vitalis Phage Therapy, about his impressive progress improving access to phage therapy in India. Pranav is also the c

Phage.ai, the interactive platform created by Piotr Tynecki (SLAVIC AI) and Proteon Pharmaceuticals, has released a new update! You can use phage.ai to access 10K phage sequences with extended characteristics (lifecycle, taxonomy, hosts, to

The PhageOption 2020 meeting scheduled to take place in Cartagena, Colombia, in November has been postponed to 2022.

Edison Cano (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota) and colleagues at Adaptive Phage Therapeutics published a new paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases showing the successful treatment of a patient's infected prosthetic knee with phage therapy, allowing t

The phage field has seen mixed results using phages to treat oral pathogens. Sabrina Green (Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues have uncovered new reasons behind why some phages may be particularly well-suited for gut pathogen target

Patrick Pausch (UC Berkeley) and colleagues have published a new paper in Science on a new 'minimal functional' CRISPR-Cas system comprised of a single 70-kDa protein, CasΦ, that they discovered in phages. This system is active in human and