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It’s Phage Picks time! This week, we highlight some new mind-expanding papers — one showing how phage killing might train the immune system like vaccines, one unpacking how temperate phages rewrite bacterial flagella with RNA-guided tools,

"It was right in front of us the whole time." Imperial College London professors José Penadés & Tiago Costa challenged Google's new 'AI co-scientist' with a phage PICI question they'd just solved after years of work. Given their unpublished

Roundup time! This month, we heard from Aaryan's experience as an undergrad researcher at Paul Bollyky's lab. We picked papers across topics like T4-AAV viral vectors, cell-free synthesis of phages, and taxMyPhage, a new tool for classifyin

This week, Esme Brinsden, a recent bio grad from the University of Southampton, shares her experience working on the Phage Collection Project, an early career-led citizen science initiative aimed at advancing phage therapy research. ## What

This week, NYIT undergrad student Yamini Patel shares insights from Viruses of Microbes 2024 in Australia. She highlights what she learned, from phage therapy with Rob Lavigne, to Colin Hill's insights on crAssphage, to what's new in microb

It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the seventh rendition of our new format, where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. Howdy phage phans! For most of you, summer’s been over for well over a month now. In

It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the sixth rendition of our new format, where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. Hi phage phans, I hope you’re enjoying the summer! There’s a lot packed into this mon

It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the fourth rendition of our new format (and Jan's favourite..!) where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. (Yes, Jan now reads more phage papers than Jessica, and she's

Round up time! This month we covered phages and neutrophils, reflected on Phage Directory and Phage Australia, and did our second 'Phage Picks' issue. Hey hey, phellow phantastic phage phans! I’m writing this from our new apartment in Miss

There's been a few studies lately on phages and neutrophils. Do they help each other? Do they get in each other's way? Who can keep track? This week we take a look at three phage-neutrophil papers and what they found. Last week as I was wri

This week we're highlighting a brand new paper out of the Bordenstein lab, out yesterday in Science, that unravels the mechanism by which prophage-encoded proteins control whether Drosophila flies reproduce or not. This week things take a d

This week, we learn from David and Lorenzo from BioNTech (formerly PhagoMed) about their experience with phage inhibition of S. aureus phages by plasma and synovial fluid. Read our papers for more details: Saez et al., 2021; Mutti et al 202

This week we're featuring an excerpt from a new book about phages, called The Good Virus. This week we have something special: an excerpt from Tom Ireland’s excellent new book on phages, called The Good Virus. Tom Ireland is a freelance sci

This week we have a guest post from Dylan Woolsey, a University of Georgia undergraduate student, who introduces us to ORACLE, a tool for generating phage variants. This post is based on a paper by Phil Huss and colleagues (2021) entitled '

This month, we wrote an article for GARDP about phage therapy business models. For this issue, we're also revisiting a couple of gems from Dr. Paul Jaschke's lab! Hey look, we’re almost 10% into 2023! And we’ve barely written anything this

In our PHAVES series this fall, Aël Hardy, PhD student at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, spoke about his research into the inhibition of phage infection by aminoglycoside antibiotics. Here’s the recording, along with a recap by Sayde Pe

We're compiling the results of our State of Phage 2020 Survey, and we're excited to show you a third snapshot of the findings! Today we're focusing on phage collections; which phages are labs collecting, how many do they have of each, and w

This week, we're featuring a guest post by Joshua Borin, a UC San Diego PhD Candidate. Joshua takes us behind his recent PNAS paper on how coevolutionary phage training leads to improved phage infectivity. Before he discovered bacteriophage

This week, Madhav Madurantakam Royam interviewed Dr. Branko Rihtman and Dr. Richard Puxty about their new paper describing an unusual nucleotide substitution from deoxythymidine to deoxyuridine in a novel family of phages belonging to Naomi

This week, we've got highlights and recordings for the six "iVoM" webinars we co-hosted with the VoM/ISVM team from Sept 2020 to March 2021! These webinars included talks by 18 expert speakers and brought together more than 1000 unique viru