Aditi Talwar·Oct 30How I Built a Phage Genome Database Inspired by PhageScopeIn my last article, I talked about one of the biggest challenges in phage therapy: finding the right phage for a specific bacterial…A response icon1A response icon1
Jaivardhan Samadhiya·Oct 25Mining the Microbiome: How Bioinformatics Uncovers Hidden Phages in the Metagenomic SoupIf you want to find a bacteriophage to cure an antibiotic-resistant infection, you don’t look in a pristine, sterile lab. You look where…A response icon2A response icon2
Jaivardhan Samadhiya·Oct 25The Self-Amplifying Drug: Simulating Phage Population Dynamics for Precision DosingWhen you take a standard antibiotic, the math is straightforward. The drug reaches a peak concentration in your bloodstream, and then your…A response icon1A response icon1
Jaivardhan Samadhiya·Oct 25Simulating the Strike: Taking Phage Therapy to the Atomic Level with Molecular DynamicsMachine learning models have proven incredible at matching genomic sequences to predict which phage will infect a specific bacterial…A response icon2A response icon2
Jaivardhan Samadhiya·Oct 25Translating the Viral Dark Matter: How Protein Language Models are Redefining Phage TherapyImagine finding an ancient book that holds the cure to a deadly disease, but when you open it, 70% of the words are in a language no one on…
Jaivardhan Samadhiya·Oct 20Decoding the Bacterial Armor: How Machine Learning Unlocks Phage Tailspike Proteins and…When we look at the cutting edge of computational phage therapy, a lot of attention goes to high-level pipelines and CRISPR editing. But…
InSBGrid Community NewsbySBGrid·Jul 30Small viruses can have a big impact on human healthSBGrid member Mihnea Bostina reports on Bas18 and its potential uses in therapeutics, vaccines, and food safety.
Peter Friebe·Jun 30The Threat of Antibiotic ResistanceDisclosure: I wrote this article and used AI as a “professional editor” to refine and shorten overly long or complicated sentences.
Harvard Undergraduate Microbiology Society·Jan 16The “thing” or “something” you titled as the deadliest, may not be as deadly as you thinkIf “deadliest” is measured by scale, efficiency, and inevitability, then the title doesn’t belong to sharks/snakes, but to bacteriophages.
Harvard Undergraduate Microbiology Society·Jan 11Friend or Foe? Phages as Medicine’s Secret WeaponWhen antibiotics fail, nature offers an unexpected hero: viruses.
