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Hollyn Franklin (Virginia Tech) and colleagues published a new paper on a phage-conditional mouse model, showing acriflavine can deplete gut phages without significantly impacting bacteria, allowing study of phage impacts in conventionally

Nadezhda Kolupaeva (State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Russia) and colleagues published a new paper on diverse prophage content in A. baumannii and K. pneumoniae bloodstream isolates from patients in the ICU,

Byers et al. report that telomere phages, which replicate their genomes as linear extrachromosomal elements, are widely distributed in bacteria and highly prevalent in Klebsiella species. In phage-host cells only a small set of phage protei

You’re invited to submit an abstract to the inaugural Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics, chaired by Graham Hatfull (University of Pittsburgh) and Robert (Chip) Schooley (UCSD). Topics range from phage struct

Sabrina Green (KU Leuven) wrote a great perspective piece for Nature Microbiology on communicating the promise of phage therapy, her tips on how best to use social media (when memes? when papers?) to get more people to understand its promis

Lizett Ortiz de Ora (University of California, Irvine) and colleagues published a new paper on visualizing phage transmission dynamics in zebrafish gut microbiomes, showing antibiotics triggered waves of interbacterial phage transmission an

Hui Yue (Zhejiang University) and colleagues published a new paper on filamentous phages as tumor-targeting immunotherapeutic agents, showing engineered phages can home to tumors and block PD-1/PD-L1 interaction for targeted cancer immunoth

Jacopo Marchi (University of Maryland) and colleagues published a new paper on stable coexistence of phages and bacteria, showing how spatial interactions and chemotaxis enable long-term coexistence and dispersal of virulent phages with mig

Jagdev Singh (The Children's Hospital at Westmead) and colleagues published a new paper on safety of bronchoscopic and nebulised phage administration, showing no adverse events and improved lung function in two adolescents with cystic fibro

Phagos and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are hosting a hackathon called Phagos x AWS — Hackdays 2025, taking place on May 14-15th, 2025. The event aims to leverage AI and LLMs for phage genome analysis, addressing antibiotic resistance and infe

Jerry Nick (National Jewish Health) and colleagues published a new paper on trial design for phage therapy against M. abscessus in cystic fibrosis, showing a standardized protocol to assess efficacy and safety of phage treatment in refracto

Jeremy Barr (Monash University) published a new perspective on T-series phages as reductionist models, discussing how these phages have shaped the field of microbiology and continue to be important research tools.

Amalie Høgh Eichler (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new paper on PQS stability in phage lysates, showing PQS is highly stable in phage lysates for up to a year and can induce quorum sensing responses when carried over,

The Online Citizen wrote a piece on Singapore General Hospital's successful use of phage therapy to treat a patient using phages, which allowed the patient to avoid high-risk surgery.

Ortiz de Ora and colleagues created Phollow, a live-imaging approach that tracks phage replication and spread in situ at single-virion resolution by marking virions with distinct fluorescent proteins as they assemble in newly infected cells

A Cell paper reports the complete structure and atomic model of mycobacteriophage Bxb1, a virus of Mycobacterium smegmatis, including the capsid, tail tube and tail-tip assembly. Cryoelectron tomography of phage bound to M. smegmatis shows

Has anybody got borrelial phage φBB-1? We'd also need a recommendation for correct concentration, dosage and administration. Thank you all! — Barbara Brenner

Qeen Biotechnologies (in partnership with Cellexus, CPI, University of Exeter, NRC Canada, and Unity Health Toronto) was awarded a $2M CAD grant through the Canada–UK: Biomanufacturing of Biologics and Advanced Therapies program to develop

Michael Shamash (McGill University) and colleagues published a new preprint on improving gut virome comparisons, showing that incorporating predicted phage host information enhances the analysis and comparison of gut viromes across differen

Amandine Maurin (University of Montpellier) and colleagues published a new paper on convergent evolution in a Salmonella phage, showing expanded host range and increased virulence evolved through parallel mutations, particularly in genes fo