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The International Society for Viruses of Microbes has elected its new board! (Of 1401 members, 32% voted!)   • President-Elect: Rob Edwards, Flinders University, Australia • Vice-President: Hany Anany, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, Canad

New North American phage biology and therapy conference alert! Save the date: Sunday, October 12 to Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at the Washington Hilton Hotel, in Washington, DC.  Organizers: Graham Hatfull, Chip Schooley, Paul Bollyky and

New North American phage biology and therapy conference alert! Save the date: Sunday, October 12 to Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at the Washington Hilton Hotel, in Washington, DC.  Organizers: Graham Hatfull, Chip Schooley, Paul Bollyky and

The International Society for Viruses of Microbes has elected its new board! (Of 1401 members, 32% voted!)   • President-Elect: Rob Edwards, Flinders University, Australia • Vice-President: Hany Anany, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, Canad

A historic day for Portugal and phage therapy! A phage therapy framework was approved, allowing magistral preparation of personalized phage products. This was done in part by a petition (inspired by the Belgian phage therapy model) signed b

Bhavya Papudeshi (Flinders University) and colleagues published a new preprint on an automated bioinformatics pipeline for phage therapy candidate screening, showing Sphae can rapidly assess phage safety and suitability for therapeutic use

Make the right ones glow! Eleanor Rand (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues developed a new targeted Phage Discovery method based on using multiple fluorescent markers, allowing for co-culture with multiple hosts and visualization of pha

Phages in sponges! A new study by Leon Steiner (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel) and colleagues shows single-phage disturbances in the microbiome of marine sponges can disrupt microbial balance, enabling opportunistic bacte

Atif Khan (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) and colleagues published a new paper showing chlorine-tolerant phages can inhibit growth and biofilm formation of chlorine-resistant K. pneumoniae isolated from a cooling water system.

Eric Nguyen (Stanford University, Arc Institute) and colleagues published a paper on their new machine learning model, Evo, a new generative AI model trained on millions of phage and bacterial genomes for designing new biological sequences

Baptiste Gaborieau (Université Paris Cité, France) and colleagues created a new machine learning model able to predict Escherichia phage-host interactions and design effective phage cocktails using only genomic data.

Ryan Cook and Andrew Millard have announced updates to their INPHARED phage genome database, showing a significant increase in Microviridae genomes (from what looks like one new study).

Léa Ibarlosa (CNRS-Université de Bordeaux, France) and colleagues published a new paper on amyloid signaling in antiphage defense, showing that amyloid proteins Bab and Agp form a novel E. coli antiphage system activating cell death upon in

Joaquín Martínez Martínez (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine) and colleagues published a new paper on viral carbon and nitrogen assimilation by microbes, showing protists and bacteria can obtain significant carbon and nitrogen fr

Phages for Global Health's president, Dr Tobi Nagel, is working in Malaysia for 2 months as part of her Fulbright project on phage therapy regulation systems. Excitingly, the Malaysia Phage Network (MPN) has just launched! The first meetin

Maryn McKenna and Lina Zeldovich held a live Q&A about phage therapy at Emory University. Zeldovich, a Soviet-born scientist-turned-author, discusses her new book "The Living Medicine," which explores the revival of phage therapy as a poten

Chao Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and colleagues published a new paper on phage CRISPR-like regulatory RNAs silencing bacterial immunity, showing how phages use crlRNA mimics to hijack host CRISPR-Cas and abortive infection defenses in

Talia Backman (University of Utah) and colleagues published a new paper on tradeoffs and constraints in tailocin evolution, showing tailocins exhibit extreme target specificity, evolve rapidly, and face tradeoffs between resistance and host

Anthony King wrote a piece for Nature Outlook on bacteria-killing viruses in the gut microbiome, showing that phages are key players in gut ecology but remain difficult to study due to their abundance and diversity.

Susu Jiang (Shenzhen University Medical School, China) and colleagues published a new paper on phage-encoded kinase evading bacterial defenses, showing the JSS1_004 protein phosphorylates multiple bacterial defense systems to enable phage i