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To use phages as therapeutic agents, ensuring phages reach the site of infection is key. Belinda Loh (Zhejiang University, China) and colleagues published a review article unfolding numerous approaches for phage delivery, including methods

Bryan Lenneman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a review on phage engineering approaches to redirect specificity and reduce resistance development. They also describe the application of designer phages as gen

The International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms has announced their newly elected executive board members for 2021-2022! Congratulations to Rob Lavigne (President), Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa (President-elect), Andrew Millard (Vice-Presid

Contrary to what we announced last week, we've had to postpone PHAVES 11 with Dr. Iredell until 2021. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up! We'll see you back in the new year for season 2 — thanks for an awesome first 10 episodes in 2020! Reg

The 23rd Congress of the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM) will be held in Boise, Idaho from 22nd to 26th May 2021. The scientific agenda is focusing on the current understanding of pulmonary disease, viral transmission

Eleanor Townsend and Eleanor Jameson (University of Warwick) are editing a special issue titled “Phage-Host Interaction in the Gut Microbiome and Their Impacts on Human Health and Disease” in MDPI’s International Journal of Environmental Re

BiomX analyzed a set of colorectal cancer tumour samples from patients, and found that 80% contained Fusobacterium nucleatum, which BiomX has been engineering phages to target. BiomX's phages are designed to deliver payloads that make tumou

UC San Diego has detailed the journey to recovery of another patient who has benefitted from the use of phage therapy. The case involved Maria Madrigal, a polycystic kidney disease (and kidney transplant) patient who suffered from recurrent

Katarzyna Danis-Wlodarczyk (Ohio State University) and colleagues published a new preprint on the antagonistic effect of colistin and ciprofloxacin on bactericidal, bacteriolytic, and virion-production activities of P. aeruginosa podovirus

Diana Pires (University of Minho) and colleagues published a review article describing the present-day challenges and opportunities in phage therapy, by analyzing the outcomes of trials and case reports done to date. Along with the current

Tolulope Oduselu (Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team, University of Ibadan) and colleagues recently published their second review article entitled "Expanding the Frontiers of Bacterial Diagnosis through Bacteriophage Biotechnology". They re

The fourth iVoM event will be Thursday, December 17, 7pm GMT, and the theme will be "Virus-host interaction: molecular mechanisms". Talks: - New discoveries on the immune system of bacteria — Rotem Sorek - The regulation and activity of Cl

My name is Tom Ireland and I'm a science writer based in the UK working on a popular-science book about phages. Under contract with a major publisher, the book aims to bring the wonder of phages to a mass audience, telling the fascinating h

The fourth iVoM event will be Thursday, December 17, 7pm GMT, and the theme will be "Virus-host interaction: molecular mechanisms". Talks: - New discoveries on the immune system of bacteria — Rotem Sorek - The regulation and activity of Cl

The recording for iVoM #2 (Virus Structure and Function with Petr Leiman, Kristin Parent and Pascale Boulanger) has been posted on the VoM 2020 Youtube channel!

Two upcoming phage webinars organized by the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science: 1) From Petri Dish to Patient: Mycobacteriophages and Their Therapeutic Potential (December 8): Register here. 2) Phage and Antibiotics: Induction of

This week included Giving Tuesday, and some of you likely donated to Phages for Global Health (PGH). A message from the PGH team: "Thank you so much for your gifts yesterday — between your contributions and matching funds we raised over $18

Diane Shader Smith and Mark Smith have established Mallory's Legacy Fund. Their daughter Mallory was one of the first cystic fibrosis patients to receive phage therapy (and she inspired Phage Directory's start!). Donations will support phag

Dr. David Pride (IPATH, UCSD) wrote a great Scientific American article on the complexity of viruses and the human body. He talks about the tricky tasks of mapping where they are and how they spread, and managing the bad ones while exploiti

PhagoMed's synthetic phage lysin platform for treatment of bacterial vaginosis came in second place (and won 20,000 Euro) in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's 2020 Health Catapult contest.