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Fresh stories, protocols, and interviews from the phage world.
Biofilm
Teaching Phages to Hunt Inside Pseudomonas Biofilms
If you have cystic fibrosis (CF), you hear the same name again and again: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a stubborn bacterium that loves…
Nature
The Bee Gut’s Viral Mirror: How Tiny Phages Reflect the Microbial Universe Within
Inside a honey bee’s gut, an invisible war rages, not between bees and parasites, but between the bacteria that keep the bee…
Research digest
Audmula to Fight Against Phages
We know that phages — viruses that kill bacteria —are beneficial to us, and active and robust studies are underway to develop…
Research digest
How Phages Are Teaching Us to Build Smarter Cancer Drugs
Imagine being able to design a medicine so precise that it recognizes one single protein in your body and ignores everything else.A…
AMR
Bespoke Phage Therapy to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing global health challenges of our time. Researchers from Monash University and The Alfred…
Laboratory procedure
What is the Best Method to Store Phages for Later Use?
A few weeks ago, I was chatting with an MSc student who had just isolated her very first phage from a sewage…
