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- A tale of three viruses (and how I discovered them)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!
- Our Phage Picks for March 2025What 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…
- If antibiotics companies fail, why won't phage companies?"As soon as investors hear 'infectious disease,' their eyes get big. When they hear 'antibacterial,' alarm bells start ringing.” And yet, Amanda Burkardt and Mayukh Das are building Phiogen Pharmaceuticals anyway. Why?
- C&T Round Up for February 2025!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.
- Building a phage lab: a journey of resilience, teamwork, and sticky situationsA decade of water damage left the floors warped — and that was just the beginning. This week, Dr. Silvia Würstle shares her new lab's journey transforming an abandoned space into a cutting-edge phage lab.
- Evergreen Phage Meeting hits the road for 2025The Evergreen Phage Meeting is a special conference — many of us can trace our phage journeys back to Evergreen. And when we wrapped up last year, we weren't even sure if we'd ever do it again. But when there's a will, there's a way.
- First food, then pharma: How Intralytix played the long game with phages"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.
- The Year of the Phage MachineHappy 2025 everyone! It's still January so we can still say happy new year! We are finally back after a nice long extended Christmas break + insanity January. Tons of phage news has accumulated — here you go!
- Year in Review 2024This 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!
- Our Phage Picks for December 2024!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!
- Mapping global Acinetobacter strains to speed up phage therapyA 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.
- C&T Round Up for November 2024!Roundup time! This month we explored phage therapy at Mayo Clinic with Dr. Gina Suh, Yamini Patel shared her experience at the VoM 2024 Conference in Australia, and Esme Brinsden discussed a new citizen science initiative in South England.…
- Citizen Science fuels South England’s phage therapyThis 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.
- A week in Australia for Viruses of Microbes 2024: Yamini’s ExperienceThis 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…
- A Mayo Clinic Physician's Journey with Phage TherapyWhat's it like treating patients with phages at a major US medical center? In a new Podovirus Podcast episode, Mayo Clinic's Dr. Gina Suh shares insights from 5 years of phage therapy — the successes, the challenges, and what it takes to…
- C&T Round Up for October 2024!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…
- Protecting Uganda's banana crops with phagesCan phages save Uganda’s banana crops? This week, Ritah Nakayinga, a lecturer and phage researcher at Kyambogo University, shares her work developing a phage cocktail to fight Banana Bacterial Wilt in Uganda's staple crop.
- Our Phage Picks for October 2024!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.
- Fluorescence, FRAP and flow: 30 days in a phage labThis 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 Eligo Bioscience edits gut bacteria with phagesHow can we harness phage-based technologies to edit bacterial genes in the microbiome? Jesus Fernandez of Eligo Biosciences shares how they're modifying phages to base-edit mouse gut bacteria, and how that opens up new possibilities for…
