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Buzzfeed made an excellent mini documentary on phage therapy (~15 min), and it’s on Netflix! It’s part of a series called “Follow This” and it features both Ben Chan and Steffanie Strathdee.

Another US patient has been successfully treated with phages. This is thanks to Ben Chan at Yale, who found, prepared and provided the phages for a 23-year-old woman with Cystic Fibrosis.

Martha Clokie has an exciting, fully-funded PhD opportunity to work on soil phages in collaboration with APS Biocontrol Ltd. Apply by Jan. 6, 2019.

If you’d like to support a woman’s phage therapy treatment at the Eliava Phage Therapy Center in Tbilisi, Georgia, you can donate here.

It's World Antibiotic Awareness Week! This is a WHO campaign to educate the public about antimicrobial resistance. The Wellcome Trust is bringing together 300 scientists, politicians, civil society and industry leaders and academics to talk

Dr. Julie Jean The research team within the Department of Food Science and the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF) at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada is looking for a postdoctoral fellow. The project will focus on the

We are urgently seeking Klebsiella phages for a hospitalized patient. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain (contact us for shipping instructions) - By helping spread the word about this

This is the second post in a series on how patients are being treated with phages outside of traditional clinical trials. Last week, we covered how experimental phage treatments are done in the US. The main issues with experimentally treat

33,000: the number of deaths in Europe caused by antibiotic-resistant infections in 2015. Surprisingly, this new study found that 1/3 of these deaths were in Italy.

How much should we worry about phage-induced spreading of antibiotic resistance? This review by Clara Torres-Barceló lays out some contrasting viewpoints and data on the matter.

How big is the market for bacteriophage products? One group estimates that number to be $567.9 million USD.

A high school sci-comm intern at the Innovative Genomics Institute developed Phage Invaders, a game where you control Cas9 to defend the city of Bacterium against viral infection. Try it here! Also, Jennifer Doudna is challenging others to

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

Save the date! The 23rd biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting will be held in Olympia, WA Aug. 4-9, 2019. The organizers are in the process of selecting ~20 invited keynote speakers. Nominate speakers until Sept. 30! Please includ

Phage Futures 2019 “super early bird pricing” ends today, Nov. 2 (Note: the student rate will still available until Nov. 30). Get 10% off with this code: PHDI10. Also, the organizers just announced that they're accepting poster submissions

Dr. Eleanor Jameson has an opening for a PhD student to study the role of phages in the gut microbiome at the University of Warwick. Apply here!

Benler and colleagues at San Diego State University published a new paper that shows that diversity-generating retroelements (which lead to hypervariable proteins) are present in many prophages found in bacteria that live in the human gut.

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

Dr. Urmi Bajpai invited phage researchers to join a newly unveiled global research consortium for promoting phage and lysin therapy: the International Bacteriophage Research Consortium. This is a collaboration between Acharya Narendra Dev C

Chen et al. published a groundbreaking new study on the discovery of a new kind of phage transduction that leads to genome hypermobility. You’ve heard of generalized and specialized transduction—now there's "lateral transduction."