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NC State researchers (Stefano Menegatti, Christopher Gorman and students) developed DendriPeps, dendrimer-peptide coatings that surround nanoparticle templates, including therapeutic bacteriophages, and keep them stable against salt and pH

A Tel Aviv University study led by Prof. Avigdor Eldar with Weizmann Institute partners (Nature Microbiology, December 2021) found that a dormant phage listens, via a receptor, to the arbitrium signal molecules its host produces to learn wh

USF researchers adapted the polony method to quantify gokushoviruses, one of the least understood groups of phages, for the first time; they may be more abundant than previously thought. Their ecological role remains unknown. University of

BioNTech SE has acquired PhagoMed GmbH! PhagoMed is a Vienna, Austria-based phage lysin and phage therapy company. The partnership of PhagoMed with BioNTech will further advance the synthetic lysin technology (LysinBuilder).

Phages for Global Health and their phage development work in Africa was covered in this C&EN Chemical Engineering News piece. It gets into what prompted Tobi Nagel to start PGH, and illustrates some exciting agricultural phage work they're

Amber Dance (science journalist in Los Angeles, California) published a Nature news feature article on the virus discoveries transforming biology. She highlighted the work of Mya Breitbart, Frederik Sc

A UC San Diego-led project found that pre-trained phages demonstrated they could delay the onset of bacterial resistance. biology.ucsd.edu

Wondering whether collecting and studying phages is worth your while? Here's a new article in Cystic Fibrosis News Today that remembers Mallory Smith, a young woman who phages could have saved, if they'd only been accessible a few days earl

Not one but THREE new papers published today in Science on phage DNA modications; they collectively describe a new pathway for purine biosynthesis and substitution of adenine by diaminopurine, found to be widespread in phages! Check out thi

Phage has made the Washington Post! The article, written by Daphne Miller, a clinical professor at UCSF, describes how most viruses around us are benign, while some are lifesaving. She interviews Saima Aslam, Paul Turner, and Ken Cadwell ab

NIAID awarded $2.5 million in grants to 12 institutes for research on bacteriophage therapy—its first series focused exclusively on the approach. The projects address phage resistance, biofilms, host specificity, delivery, engineering and c

Tom Ireland, a freelance science journalist, has published a great article in BBC Science Focus called The best way to kill a superbug? Weaponise a virus. Throughout this article, Tom introduces phages, their history, and the importance of

BBC Future has published a great in-depth feature called 'The viruses that prey on human diseases', featuring interviews with directors of the Eliava Institute (Mzia Kutateladze) and Queen Astrid Military Hospital phage therapy unit (Jean-P

The WHO's 4th Clinical Antibacterial Pipeline Advisory Group Meeting took place this week. Haileyesus Getahun, MD (Joint Secretariat on AMR at WHO) stated via Twitter that for the first time, available data on phage therapy was set to be ev

Patients in India in need of phage therapy used to have to ship their samples internationally for phage susceptibility testing, which was a dealbreaker for even phage-friendly doctors as this was slow and expensive. Now, they can do it loca

UMass is expanding its SEA-PHAGES undergraduate phage hunting program, with a goal of eventually replacing its traditional intro biology lab course with the SEA-PHAGES curriculum for all 1,200 students who participate each academic year.

Ruby Prosser Scully wrote a nice phage therapy article for the Australian healthcare professional-targeted paper Medical Republic. She interviews Australian phage researchers Peter Speck, Jon Iredell and Jeremy Barr, among others who are wo

Clément Girardot wrote a new piece on phage therapy for The Guardian's Global Development section; in it he interviews Tobi Nagel and Martha Clokie of Phages for Global Health.

Elizabeth Svoboda wrote a Nature Outlook article diving into the current state of phage therapy options for cystic fibrosis patients, and initiatives working to make this a reality. We're thrilled to see Phage Directory highlighted in this

Kevin Forsberg, a postdoctoral fellow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, was awarded a 1.5M NIAID New Innovators Award to pursue his research into how bacteria defend against viruses. This is the first year this award has been o