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The phage community may have a key role to play in the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Patients hospitalized with respiratory viruses including flu and this current coronavirus get bacterial co-infections, and these co-infections correlate with mo

Catherine M. Loc-Carrillo, MSc, PhD Director, Micro-Phage Epi Laboratory Dear phageophiles – I’m hoping that one of you has or knows someone who has Pseudomonas phi6 (ATCC 21781-B1). I’m trying to get hold of this phage so I can use it as a

BiomX announced positive results from its Phase 1 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cosmetic clinical study in 75 subjects with mild to moderate acne. Their phage product (a topical gel comprised of a cocktail of naturally-occurr

A couple of phage therapy podcasts for you this week: one with John Haverty, who received phages from Adaptive Phage Therapeutics to prevent amputation of his leg in 2019. Another with Alexander Belcredi, CEO of PhagoMed.

Jennifer Sun, a postdoc from the Bassler lab at Princeton, writes about how our knowledge of phage biology could aid our approach to tackle COVID-19.

Daniel Lauster (Freie Universität Berlin) and colleagues published a Nature Nanotechnology paper showing their use of phage capsid nanoparticles to block influenza virus entry into cells, leading to inhibition of infection in vitro and in v

Nikoline Olsen and colleagues at Aarhus University published a preprint on a new high throughput screening method (HITS) for isolating distinct phages at a large scale against multiple hosts.

Amit Vikram (Intralytix, Inc) and colleagues published a paper showing that their company's EcoShield phage cocktail reduces E. coli O157:H7 levels by 97% in eight types of foods (including meats, fish, cheese and lettuce), including reduci

Nathan Porter (University of Michigan) and colleagues published a new preprint on how phase-variable mechanisms alter phage susceptibility in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

HHMI's Science Education Alliance, Gene-function Exploration by a Network of Emerging Scientists (SEA-GENES) project is designed to expand the work conducted in the SEA-PHAGES course. In the SEA-GENES project, students will generate express

Milan Bunata, MB Pharma Hi everyone, has your phage activities been affected by the COVID situation? If so, how? Fortunately, we are still 100% working, but not knowing if we are the only one? Or one of few? What is your situation? bunata@m

Milan Bunata, MB Pharma Hi everyone, has your phage activities been affected by the COVID situation? If so, how? Fortunately, we are still 100% working, but not knowing if we are the only one? Or one of few? What is your situation? bunata@m

Adair Borges and colleagues from the Bondy-Denomy lab at UCSF have published a paper discussing how Pseudomonas aeruginosa host factors, previously characterized for their role in alginate biosynthesis, affect its Type I-F CRISPR–Cas system

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT), having recently doubled its biologics manufacturing capability (intended for its upcoming phage clinical trials), is currently in talks with a partner to help with rapid production of a COVID-19 vaccine ca

Michelle Bach (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint on how the filamentous phage Pf (present in 69% of Pseudomonas aeruginosa wounds) delays healing of P. aeruginosa-infected wounds by provoking an anti-phage immune

Gabriel Magno de Freitas Almeida and Lotta-Riina Sundberg (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) have published a historical review in The Lancet Infectious Diseases that dives into the forgotten history of phage therapy in Brazil. They show th

Phage Directory has three new volunteers! Please welcome Lauren Dunlop, Dr. Rohit Kongari and Lizzie Richardson! Lauren helps us behind the scenes with things like finding out about grants we can apply for. Rohit and Lizzie are currently he

On account of the current situation of worldwide spreading coronavirus SARS-CoV2, the organising committee might have to consider post-postponing Viruses of Microbes 2020, initially planned to take place on the 13-17 July. However, due to t

From Karen Maxwell, via Twitter: #phage community - which phage is most SARS-CoV2 like? Seems like many assays for inactivation, etc could be widely performed and then translated. Who has stocks???

From Elizabeth McDaniel, via Twitter: There’s a lot of interest right now for learning bioinformatics skills while lab research is suspended and everybody is working from home. I wanted to share free resources for learning coding basics and