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Zachary Barth (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint showing their use of RNA sequencing to study how a family of viral satellites interacts with the phages they parasitize. They found that the satellites manipulate invading

Elizabeth Burgener (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint on methods for extracting and detecting phage DNA from CF patient sputum.

Check out this episode of the Genome Insider podcast (by the Joint Genome Institute): Gary Trubl of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory talks about the wonders of viruses that live in soil and their potential impacts on greenhouse gas re

Tommi Vatanen, a senior research fellow at the University of Auckland-based Liggins Institute in New Zealand, will explore the role of gut phages in obesity with a new $300k Marsden Fund grant.

The first issue of Mary Ann Liebert's PHAGE journal is available now online.

Merry Youle, author of Thinking Like A Phage, Life in our Phage World, blogger emerita for Small Things Considered, and beloved member of the phage community, has sadly passed away.

Dr. Minmin Yen, PhagePro We're looking to explore the whole ecosystem of diarrheal disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries through short video interviews. We would particularly welcome those who are working on developing phag

Jeremy Barr, Monash University Hello everyone, due to the COVID-19 situation we will be postponing the Monash-UCSD Bacteriophage Symposium that was to be held in Melbourne on the 30th of March. We will instead explore online options and wil

We have a cow we suspect has Johne's disease (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis infection). Does anyone have phages for this bacteria that might also infect M. smegmatis? Currently, there is no treatment; vaccine was discontinued in US a

Germán Bonilla-Rosso (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS on the honey bee gut virome. They show that a diverse community of phages inhabits the bee gut, that these phages target core bee gut ba

Check out this episode of the Genome Insider podcast (by the Joint Genome Institute): Gary Trubl of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory talks about the wonders of viruses that live in soil and their potential impacts on greenhouse gas re

Tommi Vatanen, a senior research fellow at the University of Auckland-based Liggins Institute in New Zealand, will explore the role of gut phages in obesity with a new $300k Marsden Fund grant.

Elizabeth Burgener (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint on methods for extracting and detecting phage DNA from CF patient sputum.

Zachary Barth (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint showing their use of RNA sequencing to study how a family of viral satellites interacts with the phages they parasitize. They found that the satellites manipulate invading

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced they will provide up to $5M to support Armata Pharmaceuticals in conducting a Phase 1b/2 clinical trial to test the safety and tolerability of phage therapy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in pe

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics just got FDA approval to test their expanding, polymicrobial phage library approach in the clinic. This is a big step, and shows that the FDA can be supportive of a personalized phage library approach to phage th

Phages are abundant in the gut, but few have been isolated and studied. Andrew Hryckowian (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint reporting the genomes of 27 Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron phages. By looking at host trop

Megha Shah (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a sneak peek of an upcoming Cell paper from their lab: they've identified a phage-encoded "anti-activator" protein that disrupts Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing and pilus ass

Kurt Selle (Locus Biosciences) and colleagues, in collaboration with NC State University, have published a new paper in mBio showing that phage-delivered programmable CRISPR therapeutics (recombinant phage expressing host genome-targeting C

Cooperation, altruism, and cheating... how much do we know about how these interactions apply to phages and their hosts? Patrick Secor and Ajai Dandekar (University of Montana) have published a new mBio minireview on phage-host sociobiology