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This week, we're spotlighting CURE, a multidisciplinary project laying the foundation for treating and curing asthma with phages. This week, we're spotlighting CURE, a European Horizon 2020-funded, multidisciplinary project aiming to lay th

Phages for dogs too? This week, Stephanie Lynch, a PhD candidate at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, tells us about her research into phages and endolysins to treat multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius infections

Can phages help COVID patients? We've been hearing chatter about this subject from the phage community over the last few days, so we've decided to start the conversation here and keep it going. What, if anything, can the phage community do

This week, a group of researchers led by Dr. Anthony Maresso at Baylor College of Medicine describe their new initiative, TAILΦR, which makes phages tailored to patients' infections. ## How did you first get involved with phage research? Wh

This week, Dr. Ramesh Nachimuthu reflects on the ICBRAMR conference, which took place in Vellore, India in December 2019 and focused on the promise of phages in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Conference theme: Paradigm shift in

This week, Dr. Michela Gambino, a postdoc in the PHAGEBio group at the University of Copenhagen, tells us about the importance of pork in Denmark, and about their group's search for phages against E. coli in pigs. ## The importance of being

This week we highlight a recent paper on using phage therapy to treat severe musculoskeletal infections (osteomyelitis). A multidisciplinary group in Belgium made up of surgeons, infectious disease physicians, pharmacists, microbiologists a

How close are we to being able to treat chickens with phages? This week, we cover a recent study published by Viviana Clavijo and colleagues from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. They tested a 6-phage cocktail on chickens in a comm

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, Sabrina Green, a graduate student at Baylor College of Medicine, tells us how gut pathogens like ExPEC could be treated with phages, describes the challenges, and highlights her own research on the topic. The gut is a very comple

Bacterial diseases cause significant losses in the global fish farming (aquaculture) industry, and phages are being explored as a solution. ## Why aquaculture? Aquaculture (growing/farming fish for food) is the fastest growing food industry

This week, we highlight a new paper documenting the first use of engineered phages in human therapy, published yesterday by Rebekah Dedrick, Carlos Guerrero-Bustamante, and colleagues in Nature Medicine. This week, we're going over a new ph

Should phage therapy be considered for pregnant women? This week, Dr. Lucy Furfaro introduces the field of perinatal phage research. It’s an exciting time to be a phage researcher! Progress has been made at the basic science, clinical and p

The first case of phage therapy in Israel shows how patients can benefit from collaborations between academia, medicine, military and biotech. This week, we're going over a recently-published phage therapy case report. ## What was the pati

This week, we highlight a useful new animal model for the phage therapy community. Last week, we introduced a new paper describing use of a cystic fibrosis zebrafish model to test phage therapy outcomes. This week, we dive (pun intended) de

This week, we bring you a Q&A with BiomX CBO Assaf Oron. This week, we bring you a Q&A with BiomX CBO Assaf Oron. BiomX is a biotech company commercializing a platform for using phages as tools to eradicate bacteria associated with chronic