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This week we're trying something new — let's call it Phage Community Q&A! You send us your questions, we send you off-the-cuff answers. This week, Jess shares her favorite phage-making equipment in response to a researcher who's setting up

This month, we explored how Canada's first successful prosthetic joint infection phage therapy case is leading up to a full clinical trial; plus Jessica wrote a guide/manifesto(?) about why you should sequence (and re-sequence) your phages.

This month, Jess went viral with a post about How to Read Papers, we picked some great bread and butter papers, and Jess got to chat with Cytophage about navigating the Canadian regulatory phage maze. Welcome to summer, everyone! This mont

It's Phage Picks time! This week Jess picks another 'bread-and-butter' phage lab paper about how to keep your phages stable (genetically and physically) over the decades, and Jan surfaces a killer overview of all the ways phage + AI is happ

"There's 145 components of the regulatory requirements that I don't fit in. So how do I get past that? And governments right now say, I don't know." "Phages are not drugs. Every time they say, 'Did you go through regulatory?' I say, 'I can

Another round up! This month, we feature a new Lab Hacks format from Jess, one of our most controversial Capsid posts on AI use in science, and a Phage Picks of some of Jessica's nearest and dearest protocols (she uses these all the time —

It's Phage Picks time! This week's theme is bread and butter — two picks from Jess about methods papers that should be staples of any phage lab: her favourite phage-making paper, and an (aspirational) phage quantification paper she really w

New format alert! Here's 5 rapidfire, off-the-cuff tips from the lab — from how to tweak plaque size to purifying filamentous phages to preventing phage cross-contamination. These first 5 are written by Jessica but we hope to crowdsource th

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

What else can phages do, besides kill bacteria? Are bacteria even needed to make them anymore? In this month's Phage Picks issue, we cover phage+AAV hybrids to deliver genes to eukaryotic cells, cell-free phage synthesis, and a bonus must-t

Issue #300! This month we announced the return of Evergreen, covered Intralytix's 25-year-long overnight success, and Silvia's journey to build up a new phage lab. Hi phage phans, Look at that, we’re on Issue 300! That’s a really big numbe

"Phages? We don't use those here." This week, learn how these words propelled Sandro Sulakvelidze, fresh from phage-friendly Tbilisi, into a 25+ year journey to build a phage company with FDA-approved products. From a chance conversation ab

This year we moved from Sydney to San Francisco — what a year. Here's some reflections, things that went well, things that didn't, and some things we learned. Happy holidays to everyone! "Hi everyone, Thanks for making it this far — welcom

This month we heard about how Sartorius' columns can bring down endotoxins close to zero. There's also a new phage data resource called Phage Base! Lastly, we also picked a couple of super interesting papers this month — one about how antib

How do we remove impurities from our phage preparations, and get our endotoxins down close to zero? This week we've got Ažbe Žnidaršič and Lucija Rebula from Sartorius BIA Separations here to tell us about how CIMmultus monolith chromatogra

This week, Jonathan Moore tells us how (and why) he founded nonprofit GSD Bio to build a lactococcal phage-based vaccine production system as a public good. “Among the many lessons of COVID-19, one of the most profound is this: You don’t ne

Here's the third rendition of our new format: Phage Picks — where we share the papers we keep bookmarked... and keep coming back to. Hi everyone! It's Phage Picks time! This is a new monthly format we're testing out. These are casual recom

Six years ago, just as I was finishing up my microbiology PhD, I stumbled across an opportunity to help a patient. One patient turned into many, and what I used to think was 50 years away — using phages to treat infections — has become my d

Here's the second rendition of our new format: Phage Picks — where we share the papers we keep bookmarked... and keep coming back to. Hi everyone! It's Phage Picks time! This is a new monthly format we're testing out. These are casual reco

This week, Dr. Elisabet More, Principal Scientist at PDB Biotech, shares how phages can be used as diagnostics, and how they use phages to detect M. tuberculosis hidden by the immune system. Although the use of bacteriophages for therapy is