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- Feeding phages to chickens: one of the first farm trialsHow close are we to being able to treat chickens with phages? This week, we cover a recent study published by Viviana Clavijo and colleagues from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. They tested a 6-phage cocktail on chickens in a…
- PhageUGAL Summer School: Infecting Romanian research with phageThis week, Colin Buttimer and colleagues from APC Microbiome in Ireland and the University of Galati in Romania share their inspiring experience organizing and teaching Romania's first phage summer school. Because of their success, a food…
- Finding a phage community on TwitterThis week, Paulina Deptula, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, shares her experience using Twitter to find both phages for her research and a supportive community ready to help.
- State of the regulatory affair: Regulation of phage therapy in AustraliaThis week, phage researchers and clinicians from the Westmead Institute and Westmead Hospital brief us on how phage therapy is regulated in Australia, through the lens of their experience treating 14 patients with IV phage therapy.
- NCTC re-launches its phage collectionNCTC, a culture collection that supplies bacterial strains around the world, is re-launching its phage collection. How did this come about, and what does this mean for the phage community? We interviewed a group of NCTC microbiologists to…
- Phage Directory expands! What’s changing and what’s staying the sameThis week is a special, exciting week for Phage Directory! We’ve got big news pertaining to funding, new directions, and a website makeover! And to balance out all the NEW, our feature article this week focuses on something that’s staying…
- Phage therapy in the human gutThis week, Sabrina Green, a graduate student at Baylor College of Medicine, tells us how gut pathogens like ExPEC could be treated with phages, describes the challenges, and highlights her own research on the topic.
- A phage enthusiast’s highlights from ASM Microbe 2019This week, Siân Owen, a postdoctoral fellow studying prophage biology at Harvard University, gives us the scoop on the phage side of this year’s ASM Microbe conference.
- Regulating phage therapy: Let’s build a foundation for our futureThis week, Dan Evans, a research technician in the Van Tyne lab at the University of Pittsburgh, takes us through the regulatory challenges keeping phage therapy out of the mainstream, highlights ways to overcome these hurdles, and suggests…
- Getting high school students into phage labsThis week, we’re showcasing a story we received from Karen Adler, an MSc student in Dr. Ronen Hazan's lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She tells us about the phage work their lab is doing with high school students, some of the…
- Phage Therapy Applications in AquacultureBacterial diseases cause significant losses in the global fish farming (aquaculture) industry, and phages are being explored as a solution.
- The Declaration of Helsinki and Phage TherapyWhen compassionate phage therapy case reports are described in published works, the Declaration of Helsinki often gets mentioned. But where did this declaration come from, why is it referenced so often, and how does it apply to phage…
- How the Queen Astrid Military Hospital processes phage requestsThe Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Brussels has treated patients with phages since 2007, but lately, they've had a lot more phage therapy requests. This week, we're highlighting a recent report describing who's doing the requesting, what…
- Improving access to phage therapy in IndiaWe interviewed Pranav Johri, a former phage therapy patient who founded Vitalis Phage Therapy to help others access phage therapy, especially in his home country of India.
- Exploring viral ecology tools at the OSU Viromics WorkshopUC Denver postdoc Dr. Anushila Chatterjee attended this year's Ohio State University Viromics Workshop. Here's her report on what was covered!
- Phage banks around the worldWhere can you buy phages, and where can you deposit yours? This week, we take a tour of phage banks around the world.
- First case of engineered phage therapyThis week, we highlight a new paper documenting the first use of engineered phages in human therapy, published yesterday by Rebekah Dedrick, Carlos Guerrero-Bustamante, and colleagues in Nature Medicine.
- Book Review: The Perfect PredatorWhat love, community, and phages can do: this week, we bring you a review of Steffanie Strathdee and Tom Patterson's phage therapy memoir, The Perfect Predator.
- Phages as diagnostic toolsBeyond therapeutics, phage-based diagnostics show the versatility of phages in biotech. This week, guest writer Cathy Nguyen takes us through three examples of phage-based diagnostics.
- Compassionate phage therapyWhere is the world at with compassionate phage therapy? This week, Dr. Shawna McCallin highlights a new review (co-authored with us at Phage Directory and with Dr. Ben Chan at Yale) of phage case reports published to date.