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Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) and colleagues have shown that phages isolated from growth-stunted Bangladeshi children are different from those in non-stunted children. They show these phages are infectious i

Vivek Mutalik (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) and colleagues have published a new preprint on high-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli. Through systematic, genome-wide loss-of-function and gain-of-function studi

Alexandra Petrovic Fabijan (Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia) and colleagues published their safe IV treatment of 13 critically-ill, septic patients with a GMP-prepared S. aureus phage cocktail in Nature Microbiology. Jon

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

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

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

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.

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.

Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) and colleagues have shown that phages isolated from growth-stunted Bangladeshi children are different from those in non-stunted children. They show these phages are infectious i

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Could destroying phages after they've found their target help make phages work more like drugs? In a new PNAS paper, Huan Peng (UC Santa Barbara) and colleagues describe how they've conjugated phages to gold nanorods, which can "cook" nearb

A new crAssphage paper by Tanvi Honap (University of Oklahoma) and colleagues shows that crAssphage prevalence correlates with more industrialized lifestyles. Paper | News Article