Jessica Sacher @jessicasacher.bsky.social · 03/04/20261/ Chip Schooley (cofounder of UCSD's IPATH) was there when HIV went from “some people benefit” to functionally cured. His take: phage therapy is at about 1988 on that timeline. How do we get it into the 90s? 100
Jessica Sacher @jessicasacher.bsky.social · 03/04/20262/ Graham Hatfull has led collection of ~30,000 phages (phagesdb.org), and thinks natural phages are just the starting point. The future is synthetic — designed killing machines. But what do we need to learn from natural phages first? 100