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Congratulations to Dr. Minmin Yen, CEO of PhagePro, a company developing a phage cocktail as a household cholera prophylactic — she just won $10,000 in the 2019 TropMed pitch competition hosted by the American Society for Tropical Medicine

Phages were successfully used to treat a 41-year old's cardiac infection, which involved a cardiac implantable electronic device and aortic graft, at the German Heart Center Berlin in Berlin, Germany.

Phage Futures Congress 2020 is happening Feb 5-6, 2020 in Washington, DC. Early bird pricing ends Dec 6. Use discount code 'PHAGEDIRECTORY' for an extra 10% off! Hope to see you there!

Several new phage therapy reviews are out: one on the pharmacological limitations of phage therapy by Anders Nilsson, one on promises and pitfalls of in vivo evolution to improve phage therapy by James Bull and colleagues, and one on explor

Steven Swift (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center) and colleagues have engineered a chimeric phage lysin that lyses Clostridium perfringens, an important poultry pathogen. They fused the cell wall binding domain of a C. perfringens phag

It is widely recognised that the gut microbiota plays an important role in human health and has become one of the most dynamic, complex and exciting areas of research in both food and pharmaceutical arenas. The microbiota is not only a targ

Breast milk from mothers who deliver preterm is nutritionally distinct from term breast milk and contains a microbiome that has higher numbers of Coagulase negative Staphylococcus. Little is known about the ‘phageome’ of preterm breast milk

Breast milk from mothers who deliver preterm is nutritionally distinct from term breast milk and contains a microbiome that has higher numbers of Coagulase negative Staphylococcus. Little is known about the ‘phageome’ of preterm breast milk

It is widely recognised that the gut microbiota plays an important role in human health and has become one of the most dynamic, complex and exciting areas of research in both food and pharmaceutical arenas. The microbiota is not only a targ

Rebecca Quinn, University of Warwick My name is Rebecca Quinn, I'm a PhD student at University of Warwick, researching phage genetics. I'm funded by the BBSRC, and under the direction of Dr Richard Puxty. I have funding for a 3 month work

Rebecca Quinn, University of Warwick My name is Rebecca Quinn, I'm a PhD student at University of Warwick, researching phage genetics. I'm funded by the BBSRC, and under the direction of Dr Richard Puxty. I have funding for a 3 month work

This week, we're highlighting a paper published by Shelley Gibson and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine and the VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. They've constructed and characterized phage libraries against three pathogens, and m

Karen Weynberg and Paul Jaschke of the University of Queensland and Macquarie University in Australia have published a perspective on how high-throughput phage engineering could be accomplished using biofoundries, core facilities that enabl

In collaboration with researchers at Brunel University London, a new UK synthetic biology company called CC Bio is developing phage lysins to target bacterial vaginosis caused by Gardnerella vaginalis. They've just received £250,000 in fund

Ushanandini Mohanraj (University of Helsinki) and colleagues have published a paper showing a screen they've developed to identify hypothetical phage proteins with antibacterial activity. They've used it to identify four Yersinia phage prot

Mainstream news outlets are covering antibiotic resistance as a result of the two major antibiotic resistance reports just released (which we covered last week). CBS News gets into why the system for antimicrobial development is broken. Glo

Gabriel Almeida (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) and colleagues have published a paper showing that phages of the fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare bind to mucus, providing new support for the 'bacteriophage adherence to mucus' (BAM)

The PHE Culture Collections is a Biological Resource Centre that provides a service maintaining and supplying strains of cultured cells and microorganisms for public health research. It is structured as a fully integrated service, underpinn

Bacteriophages often carry auxiliary metabolic genes that are used by the phage to augment host metabolism to maximise phage replication. These genes often overcome metabolic bottlenecks encountered by their bacterial hosts and point toward

This project is aimed at evaluating the use of bacteriophage to treat Staphyloccocus aureus colonization and/or disease in order to better combat multi-antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens. A major goal of this project is to establish a