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Daniela Rothschild-Rodriguez and colleagues published a new paper exploring the role of phages in influencing the mucosal integrity of the human gut, and how these interactions may affect health and disease states. They also cover phage-enc

Ben Chan (Center for Phage Biology & Therapy, Yale University) and colleagues report the use of a personalized, inhaled phage therapy for treating P. aeruginosa infections in 9 CF adults, with the goal of selecting phages that target bacter

Zhou et al. published a new paper in Frontiers in Genetics entitled PhageTailFinder: A Tool for Predicting Bacteriophage Tail-Related Proteins.

Daniela Rothschild-Rodriguez and colleagues published a new paper exploring the role of phages in influencing the mucosal integrity of the human gut, and how these interactions may affect health and disease states. They also cover phage-enc

Swapnil Ganesh Sanmukh (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia) and colleagues published a new paper in MDPI Cells on accessing the in vivo efficiency of clinically isolated phages against uropathogenic and invasive biofilm-forming Esche

Mellissa Gomez (McMaster University) and colleagues published a new paper describing the selection of stress-resistant Listeria monocytogenes phages, and the challenges in applying them to food production environments.

Lucía Blasco and colleagues published a new paper describing 32 new phage tail-like bacteriocins (pyocins) from a clinical collection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and their potential use as typing markers and antimicrobial agents.

Hawkins et al. published a new paper which provides the first complete structural analysis of the S. epidermidis–infecting phage Andhra. Key findings include elucidating critical features for virion assembly, host recognition, and penetrati

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses recently adopted a binomial naming format for virus species. A new paper describes how to create Latinized binomials for virus species, how to automatically generate large batches of novel

In a new study published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Sheetal Patpatia (University of Helsinki) and colleagues describe how they set up a rapid hydrogel-based liquid phage susceptibility assay (PST) for the selection

In this study, a novel Pseudomonas phage, vB_PaeS_VL1 (VL1), was isolated from urban sewage. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that VL1 is a novel species in the genus Litunavirus of subfamily Migulavirinae. The VL1 is a virulent phage as no g

In this paper, Nale et al. review current progress in Clostridioides difficile phage research. They discuss tested strategies of isolating C. difficile phages directly, and via enrichment methods from various sample types and through antibi

In a new paper in PLOS Computational Biology, Quentin J. Leclerc (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues use mathematical modelling to investigate the conditions under which phages and antibiotics act in synergy to remove bacteria or drive antimi

A new preprint by Madison Stellfox (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues reports on the use of phage therapy to treat recurrent E. faecium bloodstream infections in a patient.

A new paper in Nature Communications by Lei Tian (McMaster University) and colleagues describes a new method for producing phage microgels, which could be used as sprayable antimicrobials targeting multidrug-resistant bacteria.

In a new paper in Viruses, Fedor Zurabov (MicroMir, Russia) and colleagues report that phage cocktails were safely administered to thirty patients after COVID-19.

In a new paper in Viruses, Maik Wolfram-Schauerte and colleagues (Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology) apply transcriptomics and proteomics to characterize the temporal patterns of transcription and protein synthesis during T4

Panagiotis Zagaliotis (Weill Cornell Medicine New York) and colleagues published a new review in Pathogens and Immunity on the therapeutic phages for Gram-negative bacterial infections in animals and humans.

In a new paper in eLife, Amelia McKitterick (Harvard University) and colleagues used bacteriophages Cog and CL31 to discover host factors important for phage infection of Corynebacterium glutamicum. They identified an important role for myc

Matthew Johnson (University of California, San Francisco) and colleagues have developed a computational tool to broadly identify anti-phage systems, which they applied to Pseudomonas aeruginosa genomes.