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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.

Precisio Biotix Therapeutics (Delaware-based biotech) announced a newly awarded Gates Foundation grant for engineered lysin discovery targeting bacterial vaginosis.

Alexander Sulakvelidze's team at Intralytix announced U.S. patent allowance for Campylobacter phages, showing strengthened intellectual property protection for CampyShield™, an FDA GRAS-affirmed antimicrobial preparation targeting foodborne

Victoria Harman-McKenna (University of Calgary) and colleagues published a new paper on intestinal protection using mycobacteriophages, showing that lining the small intestine with phages protects against Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratube

Geunsoo Jung, Hyunwoo Zin (Sejong University, Korea) and colleagues published a new paper on characterization of a plasmid-dependent DNA phage, showing it selectively targets E. coli harboring conjugative plasmids and reduces their abundanc

Katrina Black (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper on resolving a T1-like bacteriophage outbreak, showing how targeted deletion of an LptD loop conferred resistance to the pha

You’re invited to submit an abstract to the inaugural Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics, chaired by Graham Hatfull (University of Pittsburgh) and Robert (Chip) Schooley (UCSD). Topics range from phage struct

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.

Proteon Pharmaceuticals (Łódź, Poland) shared that BAFASAL®, its phage-based feed additive for poultry, has received a majority vote from EU Member States, moving it closer to EU authorisation. Once finalized, it will become the first phage

Vida Štilec (University of Ljubljana) and colleagues published a new paper on high quality preparation and pharmacokinetics of S. epidermidis phage COP-80B in a mouse model. They saw that injection into the joint provided local phage presen

Taylor Andrews (Rutgers University) and colleagues published a new paper on re-expansion of host range in RNA phage phi6, showing specialized phi6 strains readily regained broader host ranges through both reversion and compensatory mutation

Ortal Yerushalmy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues published a new paper on phage susceptibility diversity in CF Burkholderia isolates, showing mixed populations of phage-sensitive and phage-resistant Burkholderia in 75% of CF

Cristian Crisan (Emory University) and colleagues published a new paper on phages lysing cystic fibrosis S. maltophilia isolates, describing isolation both specialist and generalist phages that infect diverse S. maltophilia strains.

A PNAS study isolated 66 phage escape mutants against 13 plasmid-encoded lactococcal antiphage systems and found 15 mutated genes, and proposes that the Audmula system modifies the host cell wall, delaying lysis and release of progeny phage

You’re invited to submit an abstract to the inaugural Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics, chaired by Graham Hatfull (University of Pittsburgh) and Robert (Chip) Schooley (UCSD). Topics range from phage struct

The World Health Organization published a new report on phage therapy evidence, showing phages can enhance antibiotic treatments against resistant bacteria as part of a One Health approach.

Alexander Harms was interviewed on the PhageCast podcast about the Basel Phage Collection, basic science insights from E. coli phages, and how these findings can predict phage traits.

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.