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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.

When's the last time you sequenced the phages in your lab? Have you ever, or are you relying on what someone said they were? You might be like 12/13 phage labs and have secret mixtures masquerading as pure phages. You should sequence your p

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

What are pipolins, and how can they help us discover more microbes? Aaryan Harshith's newest post dives into primer-independent polymerases, and how they can help us break through biases of our current microbe-mapping methods. > Disclaimer:

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

What does discovering a phage really feel like? Stanford undergrad Aaryan Harshith takes us on an adventure through history and now—perfect for a Sunday morning with coffee! Note from Jess: This week I’m excited to cross-post an article ori

Phage + machine learning = amazing strides, yet again! From creating synthetic genomes to building smarter experiments, this month’s Phage Picks issue explores some key papers Jess & Jan keep coming back to! Hello everyone! It’s been a whi

A team of Hungarian scientists created a global ‘superbug map’ for Acinetobacter baumannii strains, paving the way for scalable phage therapy to combat antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals. A team of Hungarian scientists created a g

Roundup time! This month we explored phage-based gene editing in the microbiome, high schooler Kate Kelly shared her jam-packed 30 days in Stanford’s Bollyky lab, and Ritah Nakayinga from Kyambogo University discussed her phage cocktail to

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

This week, California high school student Kate Kelly shares what she learned spending 30 days in the Bollyky group's phage microbiology and immunology lab at Stanford this summer. (Somehow she seems to have tried more techniques in a month

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

'Phage Option 2024' in Cartagena, Colombia is happening this December! This week we learn the story of its organizers, a group of mostly female Latin American scientists, and how they've advanced phage science by forming networks and hostin

This week, we feature Bishoy Maher Zaki, a PhD researcher who transitioned from phage isolation to phage bioinformatics. He’s currently streamlining phage genome analysis tools for the research community — and is asking for help from the ph

For this month, we found some super interesting phage papers, heard about phage-vectored vaccine production, and more! Hey everyone, Summer is finally here! But as you know, Jess and I moved to San Francisco, and “summer” is mostly indisti

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

This week, we hear from Gabor Apjok, who has responded to many of our Phage Alerts. Working out of his lab in Hungary, he has successfully isolated and supplied phages that have gone on to treat several patients around the world. Most resea