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Tulane Ventures has invested $250,000 in Biophoundry, a Tulane University spinout developing engineered phage therapies for antibiotic-resistant infections. Its Phax platform couples computational phage design and selection with rapid phage

The Leptihn lab’s October 2 announcement links a Nature Medicine consensus guideline published September 21, 2026. The primary article describes collaboration involving 20 professional societies, patient advocacy groups and regulatory autho

Martha Clokie and Anisha Thanki received £800,000 from BBSRC to advance a bacteriophage product against Salmonella in chickens. le.ac.uk

A PHTRP article recounts a Sydney case of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella aerogenes necrotizing pancreatitis and the clinical phage therapy programme that treated it. The team has treated more than 60 patients and conducted more than 200 dia

Phageguard is listed as an exhibitor at Middle East Poultry Expo, October 4–6, 2026 in Riyadh, showcasing phage-based food-safety applications. @mep_expo

A University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine team led by Breck Duerkop has spent 15 years compiling a library of phages against stubborn gut bacteria, mainly Enterococcus faecalis and E. faecium: more than 30 phages infecting entero

Veterinarians at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut and the University of Florida treated Jetta, an 11-year-old beluga with chronic pneumonia caused by multidrug-resistant E. coli, with bacteriophages chosen for her strain, delivered partly thr

University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemists led by Vatsan Raman built an AI model that identifies phage mutations with the greatest potential to improve targeting and killing of bacteria. In laboratory tests, phages carrying AI-suggested mu

Claude helped identify array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART), an enzyme system found mainly in bacteriophages. Early laboratory work is described in a preprint; the system’s biological function remains unknown. Anthropic

Ayesha Umair’s first primary research preprint explores suppressing phage induction. Farncombe Phage / Hynes Lab

McMaster University researchers report in PNAS that several broader-spectrum phages share particular forms of structural diversity in their tail fibres, and that the pattern held across the phages tested in Lori Burrows’ lab and dozens of s

The University of Santo Tomas BEATS delegation presented four studies—one oral presentation and three posters—at Phages 2026 in Oxford on September 1–2. The work covered bacteriophages, microbial ecology and antimicrobial resistance. Univer

Phage Foundry lists Vivek Mutalik as a recipient of Berkeley Lab’s 2026 Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement. phagefoundry.org

The first patient has been enrolled in Part 2 of the Phase 1b/2a clinical trial of SNIPR001, an investigational CRISPR-armed phage therapeutic candidate for preventing E. coli bloodstream infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant pat

EcoPhage announced U.S. EPA approval for GoldenEco, a phage-based biopesticide developed for bacterial diseases in tomatoes and peppers caused by Xanthomonas and Pseudomonas. A U.S. commercial launch is subject to state registrations and ot

Inteliphage and Birmingham’s Precision Health Technologies Accelerator will advance PhageXpert, an automated phage susceptibility testing workflow, and support its UK route to market. Precision Health Technologies Accelerator

Armata Pharmaceuticals announced on September 14, 2026 that the US FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to AP-SA02, its intravenous multi-phage product candidate for adjunct treatment of complicated Staphylococcus aureus bactere

A CNN report on antimicrobial resistance follows the family of an Indonesian infant whose parents believe resistance played a role in his death, and Mallory Smith, a cystic fibrosis patient who died at 25 from a B. cepacia infection that an

In an episode of Stanford Medicine's The Future of Medicine, hematologist and microbiome researcher Dr. Ami Bhatt discusses tracing about 40% of bloodstream infections in a Stanford bone marrow transplant population to microbes already livi

Professor Yuping Li of the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has received a European Research Council Starting Grant, funded with 1.5 million euros over five years, to study how bacteria detect and defend themselves against jumbophages, gian