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Michela Gambino (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new review in Current Opinion in Biotechnology on modernizing phage-based control of zoonotic pathogens in food and animal production. They suggest a holistic approach bu

Sofia Dahlman (Monash University) and colleagues published a new review in Current Opinion in Biotechnology on phages to shape the gut microbiota. They discuss current understanding of phages within the gut (from infancy, to adulthood, to d

Some elements, termed phage-plasmids, are known to be both plasmids and phages. Eugen Pfeifer (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues screened 14,000 phages and plasmids and found 780 phage-plasmids across very diverse bacterial phyla, suggesting

The third iVoM event will be Thursday, November 19, 4pm GMT, and the theme will be "Virus-host interaction: overcoming cell barriers". It will feature talks by: Martin J. Loessner (ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland) Carlos São-José (Universi

The third iVoM event will be Thursday, November 19, 4pm GMT, and the theme will be "Virus-host interaction: overcoming cell barriers". It will feature talks by: Martin J. Loessner (ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland) Carlos São-José (Universi

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics has deployed their PhageBank™ in Texas to treat COVID-19 patients suffering from life-threatening carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB). Eight of these patients have so far received PhageBank™ thera

BiomX has announced the dosing of their first subject in their Phase 1a clinical study testing the safety, pharmacokinetics and oral delivery of a phage therapy candidate for treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Results are expected in

Jiawei Wang (Monash University) and colleagues published a new paper in Nucleic Acids Research describing AcrHub: an integrative hub for investigating, predicting and mapping anti-CRISPR proteins.

Jolene Ramsey (Texas A&M University) and colleagues published a new paper in PLoS Computational Biology describing Galaxy and Apollo as a biologist-friendly interface for high-quality cooperative phage genome annotation. Researchers can use

Katie Bodner (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new paper in STAR Protocols showing how to engineer phages for live-cell imaging of prophage induction inside mammalian cells.

Yu Lin (University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics showing storage stability of phage-ciprofloxacin combination powders against Pseudomonas aeruginosa respiratory infections. The

PhageOption 2020 will take place at Universidad de los Andes, Cartagena, Colombia from November 4-6, 2020. The conference will focus on the role phages can play in controlling MDR bacteria in human and agriculture fields. Organizers: Resear

Looking for viruses in your microbiome data? KBase has new Apps to identify and analyze viral sequences in your assemblies. Join this webinar on Nov. 4 at 1pm ET/10am PT to learn the basics of viral analysis in KBase from Dr. Ben Bolduc of

Patients in India in need of phage therapy used to have to ship their samples internationally for phage susceptibility testing, which was a dealbreaker for even phage-friendly doctors as this was slow and expensive. Now, they can do it loca

Dutch phage biotech company Micreos has signed a license agreement with L'Oréal — this means L'Oréal can incorporate Micreos' phage lysins into its products, and represents a huge milestone for phage biotech making its way into the mainstre

There is currently no working treatment for recurring bacterial vaginosis (BV). Christine Landlinger (PhagoMed Biopharma GmbH) and colleagues published a new preprint in medRxiv showing that their engineered phage endolysin candidate elimin

Long-read genome sequencing suffers from high DNA requirements and sequencing errors, so Olivier Zablocki (Ohio State University) and colleagues developed VirION2, an integrated short- and long-read metagenomic wet-lab and informatics pipel

Do you consider a virus-like particle (VLP) to be a particle that looks like a virus, or is it a virus specifically lacking a viral genome? Different fields (e.g. ecology vs. vaccine development) use the term differently. Paul Hyman, Gary T

PHAVES #10 will be a seminar by Dr. Paul Jaschke, Assistant Professor at Macquarie University, Australia, on Nov. 10, 5:30 PM Eastern Time (GMT-4) / Nov. 11 at 9:30 AM AEST. His talk is entitled "Learning How to Engineer Genomes by Building

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) has received Orphan drug designation from the FDA for the use of its PhageBank™ (a continually expanding library of phages) to treat prosthetic joint infections. APT will now be eligible for seven years of