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You may have heard of the Nagoya Protocol in the context of isolating or sharing phages or bacteria. But what is the Nagoya Protocol, and how does it apply to phage research and development? This week, we've put together a primer to help ex

This week, phage researchers and clinicians from the Westmead Institute and Westmead Hospital brief us on how phage therapy is regulated in Australia, through the lens of their experience treating 14 patients with IV phage therapy. ## Phage

This week, Dan Evans, a research technician in the Van Tyne lab at the University of Pittsburgh, takes us through the regulatory challenges keeping phage therapy out of the mainstream, highlights ways to overcome these hurdles, and suggests

When compassionate phage therapy case reports are described in published works, the Declaration of Helsinki often gets mentioned. But where did this declaration come from, why is it referenced so often, and how does it apply to phage therap

The Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Brussels has treated patients with phages since 2007, but lately, they've had a lot more phage therapy requests. This week, we're highlighting a recent report describing who's doing the requesting, what

We interviewed Pranav Johri, a former phage therapy patient who founded Vitalis Phage Therapy to help others access phage therapy, especially in his home country of India. Pranav Johri founded Vitalis Phage Therapy in 2017, which partners w

People are starting to ask questions about phage therapy. We need your help to put together an FAQ. Do they qualify? How can they get it, and where do they get it? ## First things first: we're building a crowdsourced phage FAQ page We’d lik

This week, we explore Belgium's unique new way of treating patients with phages... We've talked about emergency/compassionate phage therapy cases, where patients get phages in the case of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections. T

This is the first of a series of posts about how patients are being treated with phages outside of traditional clinical trials. — How do people currently get phage therapy in the US? Open up nearly any phage-related article, and the first

You may have heard that phages "still haven’t made it through clinical trials.” What does this mean, and is anyone making any progress on this? Do you have experience with or knowledge of clinical trials? If you have anything to add, ple