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Tolka AI Therapeutics has announced expanded access to patient-tailored phage therapy for M. abscessus infections. They're screening patients at five institutions for compassionate use where standard antibiotics have failed.

Hello, I'm looking for phage cocktails for phage therapy to treat and study Sinusitis infections "Streptococcus pneumoniae Haemophilus influenzae Moraxella catarrhalis Staphylococcus aureus Pseudomonas aeruginosa" Please email on amyl

A much awaited regulatory guidance document! The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced new guidance for developing phage therapies in the UK.

The European Research Executive Agency has announced €7.3 billion in EU funding for research through Horizon Europe 2025 to support research careers and competitiveness.

Atif Khan and Hiren Joshi (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India) published a new research paper on selectively enriching and characterizing stress-tolerant phages for food biocontrol.

Bradley Cook (Cytophage Technologies) and Alexander Hynes (McMaster University) published a new paper on re-evaluating phage therapy criteria. They examine three commonly applied criteria for excluding phages from therapy: the lack of virul

Eleanor Rand (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new paper on a targeted phage discovery method called Phage DisCo, a co-culture-based phage screening technique. Using isogenic, fluorescently tagged bacterial strains, they c

Navy Medicine Research & Development reports that, over a six-year Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) award starting in fiscal year 2019, the Naval Medical Research Command worked with the U.S. Naval Research Laborat

On 4 June 2025 the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published the UK's first official guidance to support the safe development and use of phage therapies, covering both combined phage products for common infecti

"Phages are not drugs. Every time they say, 'Did you go through regulatory?' I say, 'I can do regulatory, but I'm not a drug.' There's 145 components of the regulatory requirements that I don't fit in." When your health innovation doesn't f

For this month, we feature a guest post about pipolin use in PCR, two podcasts from Jess, and another lab hacks episode from Jan. Hi everyone, Spring is upon us! Jess has been focused on her research — a slight deviation from phage therapy

Hi everyone, I'm a researcher based in Argentina working on a phage-based biocontrol project targeting spoilage bacteria in industrial fermentations, particularly lactic acid bacteria like Lactobacillus plantarum, L. fermentum, and L. brev

Reminder to register for the Phage Protein Meeting, taking place in Ghent, Belgium, on September 10-11, 2025. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together experts working with phage lysins/endolysins, tail fibers, tailspikes, depol

Stephen Tang (Columbia University) and colleagues published a new paper on protein-primed homopolymer synthesis, showing a novel bacterial antiviral defense mechanism involving synthesis of poly-dA DNA triggered by phage infection, driven b

Meaghan Castledine (University of Exeter) and colleagues published a new paper on interactions between phages and macrophages, showing macrophages reduced phage efficacy and increased bacterial phage resistance, potentially explaining varia

Liana Merk (Harvard University) and colleagues published a new paper on prevalence of group II introns in phage genomes, showing group II introns are widely present in phages from diverse phylogenetic backgrounds, contrary to previous assum

Nathan Novy (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues published a new paper on multiobjective learning and design of phage specificity, showing deep learning can enhance T7 phage infectivity and specificity toward diverse bacterial s

Tianjing She (Nanjing Agricultural University) and colleagues published a new paper on phage-mediated gene transfer in Salmonella, showing horizontal transfer of virulence genes in Salmonella enterica with regulatory feedback from the host.

Genentech's Man-Wah Tan lab in South San Francisco is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, to study bacteria-host interactions, focusing on mechanisms of bacterial factors interacting with host mucosal or barrier immunity for persistent c

The Roybal lab at UCSF School of Medicine is hiring a Junior/Assistant/Associate/Full Specialist, to study synthetic biology and immune cell editing using viral and non-viral techniques, and develop new CRISPR-Cas tools for microbes.