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This week, we highlight a new case report published last week in Cell. It documents the successful phage therapy of a Mycobacterium abscessus infection, which led a 26-year old in Colorado with cystic fibrosis to receive a lung transplant o

How do you turn subjective observations into a quantified, somewhat-less-subjective observations? This week Jan Zheng continues his phage data series, delving into how (and why) the well-known 'Net Promotor Score' used by software companies

From Feb 14th-16th, the who's who of the phage world is getting together to discuss everything from isolating phages from hospital wastewater to the role of the immune system in phage therapy! This week, University of Vienna MSc student Je

Remember when Shelley the sea turtle got phage therapy, thanks to the phage community? This week, Stephanie Lynch distills main learnings from the paper and shares her interview with Shelley's vet, plus a webinar/Q&A that dives deeper! A 42

This week, Lizzie Richardson brings us a guest post on optimising the route for phage delivery. Over the last 18 months the only respiratory infection the world has cared about is that caused by the coronavirus. The visible pandemic that ha

This week, Apurva Virmani Johri and Pranav Johri of Vitalis Phage Therapy take us behind their recently published phage therapy case report, which describes the successful treatment of a patient with prostatitis using phages (done at the El

In our PHAVES series this summer, Dr. Gina Suh, an infectious disease physician at the Mayo Clinic, and John Haverty, a phage therapy patient, spoke about phage therapy from a doctor's and patient's perspective. Here’s the recording, along

In our July PHAVES series, Dr. Ameneh Khatami, a paediatric infectious disease physician and senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, spoke about phage therapy for difficult to treat infections in children. Here’s the recording, along w

This week, we're featuring a guest post by Joshua Borin, a UC San Diego PhD Candidate. Joshua takes us behind his recent PNAS paper on how coevolutionary phage training leads to improved phage infectivity. Before he discovered bacteriophage

In our PHAVES seminar series last month, Dr. Laura Damioli and Dr. Greg Canfield (University of Colorado Anschutz) shared their experience treating their first patient with phage therapy for a spinal hardware infection. Here's the recording

This week, we're featuring a guest blog post by David Sáez and Lorenzo Corsini of PhagoMed; they dive into their recent paper describing how they're breeding phages to be better for therapy using a modified Appelman's protocol. Read our rec

This week, we've got highlights and recordings for the six "iVoM" webinars we co-hosted with the VoM/ISVM team from Sept 2020 to March 2021! These webinars included talks by 18 expert speakers and brought together more than 1000 unique viru

This week, we've got highlights and recordings for 3 webinars we hosted this month: An interview with Dr. Randy Fish on clinical phage therapy for diabetic foot wounds, a talk by Dr. Clara Torres-Barceló on plant pathogen phage research, an

Today we're doing a quick dive into diabetic foot ulcers and phages. What's the problem, what are some ways phages have been used to date, and what's the current status of clinical trials? We're going to start doing more 'quick dives' into

💯 It’s our 100th issue and 2nd birthday!! Thanks so much to all of you for reading and sharing Capsid & Tail; we wouldn’t have gotten this far without your support! This week, Clément Girardot interviewed University of Leicester Professor

This week's feature article was written by Andrew Favor, Nextbiotics bioinformatics advisor and University of Washington PhD student. He takes us behind his recent Scientific Reports paper on a rapid in vitro platform for enhancing phage ch

This month, we hosted two episodes of PHAVES! Here's your recap of both, along with links to the recordings. Thanks very much to our special guests, Dr. Sabrina Green and Dr. Panos Kalatzis. This month, we hosted two PHAVES events; here's y

This week, two PharmD students from different countries, Christine Thompson (USA) and Yasmine Bendimrad (Morocco), share their views on pharmacists' roles in antimicrobial stewardship and how phages could fit into their scope as future infe

This week, Jess Friedersdorff of Aberystwyth University in Wales tells us about her fascinating research into phages of the rumen microbiome. As someone embarking on a career in research and academia, I, like many other scientists, endeavou

This week, Prof. Yves Briers of Ghent University in Belgium takes us behind the scenes of his group's new paper on an efficient new way of engineering thousands of phage lysins at once. This article takes us behind the scenes of this pape