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Hi, everyone in phage community, my name is Dr. Prince, I belong to India, and I completed my doctorate in phage characterization and its application. I am looking for a postdoc position in phage biology. Please help me for the postdoc posi

Cytophage, a Canadian phage biotech, recently made its debut on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), and just announced that they’ve completed R&D on their OvaPhage product, to be sprayed over chicken eggs to reduce Salmonella, Escherichia, an

BiomX got orphan drug designation from the FDA for its BX004 phage cocktail for CF P. aeruginosa. This helps lower the cost and risk of drug development through extended exclusivity, lower filing fees and access to grants.

Madison Stellfox and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh published a new paper on phage-antibiotic combination therapy for recurrent E. faecium. Phages were administered to a patient with increasingly severe E. faecium bloodstream in

Silvia Würstle and colleagues at the Center for Phage Biology & Therapy at Yale University published a paper on their optimized pipeline for emergency phage therapy against P. aeruginosa. Their pipeline includes evaluation of useful evolved

Julie Fletcher and colleagues at the University of Exeter published a paper showcasing their Citizen Phage Library's end-to-end approach for rapidly isolating phages and purifying them for patient use. They’ve responded to four Phage Direct

Researchers at University Medicine Rostock delivered synthetic mRNA encoding the Cpl-1 phage endolysin into three human cell lines (HEK293T, A549, HepG2), which produced endolysin with activity against Streptococcus pneumoniae. Adding a hum

Integrated resonant photonic crystal cavities in silicon acted as optical nanotweezers that differentiated a single bacterium from a single phage without labeling or surface bioreceptors, and distinguished phages across phenotypically disti

Researchers at the University of Minho and partner institutions show that synthetic M13 phages displaying Aβ-derived peptides bind preferentially to amyloid-β oligomers. In hippocampus tissue from APP/PS1 transgenic mice the phages detected

In this preprint, intravenously administered antipseudomonal phage LPS-5 had blood half-lives of 3.45 and 3.66 hours in wild-type and neutropenic mice, suggesting neutrophil phagocytosis is not a major driver of phage clearance. A gap betwe

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

A review of in vitro attempts to use bacteriophages and their enzymes, alone or together with antibiotics and other agents, against polymicrobial biofilms, including some therapeutic uses. It also sums up the advantages, disadvantages and p

A Nature Microbiology study from the Universities of Würzburg and Tübingen shows that in Vibrio cholerae the CBASS anti-phage signalling system increases sensitivity to antifolate antibiotics up to tenfold and enables bacterial lysis by the

A Nature Communications study (open access) describes Paride, a newly isolated Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage that can replicate directly in, and lyse, deep-dormant host cells, whereas other phages tested suspended replication until the host

The recombinant endolysin LysAB1245, from phage T1245, showed broad activity against all clinical multidrug-resistant A. baumannii isolates tested across capsular types KL2, 3, 6, 10, 47, 49 and 52, with a reduction of more than 3 log in vi

Phage Phriday on Clubhouse returns for a holiday special on Dec 22, featuring Amanda Burkardt, CEO of new therapeutic phage company Phiogen, and Iddo Weiner, VP of research at BiomX, who recently generated some exciting new phage clinical t

The International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC) & Open Source Pharma Foundation (OSPF) in association with the Indian Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy (SBRT) have started a series of talks by clinicians with experie

Did you know that VoM is heading down under? The Viruses of Microbes (VoM) Conference will take place in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, July 15-19th, 2024. Registration is open now!

Cristina Leal Rodríguez (Copenhagen University Hospital) and colleagues published a new paper on how the infant gut virome is associated with preschool asthma risk independently of bacteria.

Yue Clare Lou and colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley, published a new study on the persistence of infant gut DNA phage strains during the first 3 years of life.