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What's the hardest part of phage genome annotation? According to Marta Sampaio and colleagues at the University of Minho, it's finding phage promoters. Here's a new tool they developed, PhagePromoter, to help you find them.

The 2019 Evergreen International Phage Meeting has come to a close — it was so great meeting so many phage biologists there! Among several highlights, which we'll summarize in a future issue, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Virus

Camille d’Humières and colleagues at the Université Paris Diderot and the Institut Pasteur describe a simple, cost-effective way to analyse the gut phageome: from phage isolation to bioinformatics.

A new paper published by Zachary Storms and colleagues in the Sauvageau lab at the University of Alberta describes a method for high-throughput quantification of phage virulence that can be applied to phage screening, evaluation of phage st

Have you heard about the similarities between the Caudovirales (tailed phages) and the Herpesevirales (a eukaryotic viral order)? Juan Andrade-Martinez and colleagues at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia compared 2000 Caudovirales ge

Jeremy Barr, who runs a phage lab at Monash University, was interviewed about his work and career on the Meet the Microbiologist podcast. 45 min.

This week on #phagetwitter: "Anyone have a good protocol for DNA extractions from low titer phage lysates?" — @FazzinoLisa Check out the thread for many helpful answers and links!

Simon Roux and a multidisciplinary team of colleagues have found that inoviruses (filamentous, single stranded DNA phages that replicate without killing their host) are much more prevalent than previously thought, and they even infect archa

A research group at McMaster University led by Dr. Zeinab Hosseini-Doust has gotten phages to a high enough concentration to create a solid gel matrix. The phages self-assemble, and are still active against their bacterial host in this form

Benjamin Thuronyi and colleagues from the Broad Institute and Harvard have developed a way to use phage-assisted continuous evolution to evolve better base editors for gene editing.

The Danish project TOPSAFE (Targeted Optimized Phage solutions for food Safety), a 4-year collaboration between Danish businesses and researchers, is drawing to a close, and has shown that phages that target fresh food spoilage bacteria are

Bacteriophage.news is a new platform for phage therapy patients to share their stories.

This week on #phagetwitter: "Anyone have a good protocol for DNA extractions from low titer phage lysates?" — @FazzinoLisa Check out the thread for many helpful answers and links!

The Danish project TOPSAFE (Targeted Optimized Phage solutions for food Safety), a 4-year collaboration between Danish businesses and researchers, is drawing to a close, and has shown that phages that target fresh food spoilage bacteria are

Bacteriophage.news is a new platform for phage therapy patients to share their stories.

Benjamin Thuronyi and colleagues from the Broad Institute and Harvard have developed a way to use phage-assisted continuous evolution to evolve better base editors for gene editing.

A research group at McMaster University led by Dr. Zeinab Hosseini-Doust has gotten phages to a high enough concentration to create a solid gel matrix. The phages self-assemble, and are still active against their bacterial host in this form

Bayer has teamed up with the Israeli life sciences investment company Trendlines to form a new biotech company, Ecophage, which will develop phage-based treatments of crop diseases.

Pherecydes Pharma is joining forces with BIOASTER, a French not-for-profit foundation that brings together academic, industry and its own capacities to execute high-impact, collaborative projects, to explore the use of phage therapy to trea

BiomX, a biotech company developing natural and engineered phages to treat microbiome diseases, announced a merger agreement with Chardan Healthcare Acquisition Corp. The combined company is expected to be listed on the New York Stock Excha