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First jumbophages and megaphages... now we have 'huge phages'. Basem Al-Shayeb (UC Berkeley) and colleagues have identified and classified hundreds of new giant phage genomes (one as large as 735 kb) from human, animal and environmental mic

A postdoctoral research opportunity is currently available in the lab of Dr. Paul Carlson at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA in Silver Spring, MD. The project will involve assessing the potential of phage therapies aga

Julie Callanan (APC Microbiome Ireland) and colleagues have greatly expanded the number of known ssRNA phage genomes. As of June 2019, only 12 were available in NCBI, but they sifted through 82 publicly available metatranscriptomes and dete

A Research Associate is required within the School of Life Sciences (Lincolnshire, GB) to study bacteriophages to control the anaerobic pathogen Clostridium perfringens in farm animals.

Prof. Daniel Nelson's lab at University of Maryland has been awarded funds to study endolysins as a treatment for acne caused by C. acnes.

It's hard to learn about prophage biology from genome sequence data alone. In a new paper, Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues at the University of Liverpool show us how they've used transcriptomic data to explore prophage bio

Phages in space! Dr. Vatsan Raman, a UW-Madison biochemist, is sending phages and bacteria to the International Space Station for an experiment on how microgravity and radiation affect phage-host interactions.

Ranjan Sen (Laboratory of Transcription, CDFD, Hyderabad) is hiring for a postdoc position (Research Associate-II, DST-SERB grant) in the area of bacterial gene expression or bactericidal proteins from myco-bacteriophages. Contact: rsen@cdf

The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ECCMID) (April 18-21 2020, in Paris, France) will include several phage therapy sessions.

DeepPetri is an AI-based tool by Phages4A that semi-automatically determines, measures, and categorizes lysis zones of images of phage spot tests. Sign up to be notified when they launch, and stay tuned to take part in a survey looking at h

BiomX announces dual listing on the Tel-Aviv stock exchange.

Armata Pharmaceuticals and Innoviva have announced a $25 Million investment to support Armata's phage cocktail development.

We've seen Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) in the news a lot lately—here's an interview with Greg Merril, APT's CEO, a podcast interview with a patient whose leg was saved by APT's phages, and a news article on APT's selection for Startup

This week, Ella Balasa, a cystic fibrosis patient who received phage therapy from Yale researchers in 2019, tells her story. I’ll take you on a journey of how phage therapy has had an impact on my life within the past year. The fall of 2018

Aurélie Mathieu (Université Paris-Saclay) and colleagues have published an exciting new paper in Nature Communications: they isolated 150 E. coli phages from fecal samples from 1-year-old infants. Then they analyzed the host range of the ph

Lance Boling (SDSU) and colleagues tested 117 consumable compounds (like toothpaste, Stevia, aspartame) for their ability to induce prophages from four bacterial species. They found that certain compounds induced prophages (some in a specie

A new article in STAT News by Eric Boodman (one of our favourite phage journalists!) talks about how a phage has been found that kills Mallory Smith's infective Burkholderia cepacia isolate. In Mallory's honour, the phage has been named BCM

Attention phage companies with interests in addressing animal health challenges! You can apply here to showcase your solution at the Animal Microbiome and Nutritional Health Congress in Chicago Mar 3-4, 2020. (Apparently most companies who'

Listen to Jeremy Barr of Monash University's take on phage therapy and how close we are to bringing it to patients at scale. 16 min.

A new monthly podcast called Superbugs Unplugged covers antimicrobial resistance news (and even covers phages, in episode two!).