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Los Angeles Biotech startup Parallel Health has announced an expanded protocol for personalized skin treatments using microbiome science and phage therapy. Their approach combines microbiome testing, custom phage serums, telehealth, and pre

Julia Kelliher (Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico) and colleagues published the outcomes of a recent microbiome data management workshop focused on standardizing reporting guidelines for environmental and host-associated microbiome

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

The Wright Lab at Baylor University is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate, to study phage biology or microbial cell sorting in gut and oral microbiomes using chemical probes and phenotype-driven approaches.

Jens Walter at University College Cork is hiring a Research Assistant (Microbiology) to join his team in the UCC Microbiology and Pharmabiotic Centre, focusing on nutritional- and microbiome-based approaches to improve human health. For ful

Querying 34 toothbrush and 92 showerhead metagenomes, researchers identified 22 complete, 232 high-quality and 362 medium-quality viral OTUs, with viral richness correlating with bacterial richness. Low sequence similarity to references and

How can we harness phage-based technologies to edit bacterial genes in the microbiome? Jesus Fernandez of Eligo Biosciences shares how they're modifying phages to base-edit mouse gut bacteria, and how that opens up new possibilities for tre

🎙️ New Podovirus Podcast Episode Alert! I had such a great time talking to Jesus Fernandez-Rodriguez, PhD, VP of Technology at Eligo Bioscience, about how they're editing live microbes in the mouse gut with engineered phages! 🧬 Highligh

Congratulations to Simon Roux for winning the 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize for his outstanding contributions to microbiome research!

In a new preprint, Aleksander Szymczak (Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Poland) and colleagues investigate the triadic dynamics between the gastric microbiome, phageome, and host genotype. They reveal non-univers

It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the fourth rendition of our new format (and Jan's favourite..!) where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. (Yes, Jan now reads more phage papers than Jessica, and she's

The Bordenstein lab (Penn State University) is hiring a Research Technologist to conduct research in host-microbe symbioses and the microbiome sciences, spanning insect endosymbionts, phages, and animal-associated microbiomes.

The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester has a self-funded opening for a PhD student to investigate the ecological states of phage communities and their impact on host-associated microbiomes.

A human oral Saccharibacteria isolate (TM7x) protected its host Schaalia odontolytica XH001 from lytic phage LC001 during surface-associated growth, with down-regulation of a cell-wall polysaccharide gene cluster that affects phage binding.

Michael Shamash, a gut phageome PhD student at McGill University, explores the influence of gut phages on the human microbiome and their potential impact on health in a podcast interview with Justine Dees at the Joyful Microbe.

Researchers at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences cultured a novel deep-sea cold-seep Planctomycetes strain, ZRK32, which they propose to name Poriferisphaera heterotrophicis. Supplementing nitrate or ammonium induced

L'Oréal has acquired Danish probiotic and microbiome research company Lactobio.

The Resch lab at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) seeks a Researcher (80%) for its phage therapy laboratory. The role, part of the NCCR Microbiomes project, involves experiments, report writing, supervision, and lab management.

Martin Polz has 2 PhD positions open in highly interdisciplinary projects to work on microbial growth in the environment using novel technologies and on the influence of phage in structuring microbiomes. Please email: martin.f.polz@univie.a

Leibniz Institute on Aging, Germany is hiring a postdoc to study phage-microbiome interactions.