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Professor Martha Clokie and Dr Anisha Thanki have been awarded £800,000 from the UK BBSRC to advance the production of safe and effective phages for combating disease in the veterinary field, with the aim of bringing them to market in accor

Intralytix, Inc. has been issued a patent by the European Patent Office for several Shigella phages and their applications and formulations.

The European Medicines Agency have published a new guideline on the quality, safety, and efficacy of phages as veterinary medicines.

Lydia Chambers and colleagues discovered that bacterial antiviral defense pathways encode eukaryotic-like ubiquitination systems, revealing strong parallels between bacterial and eukaryotic ubiquitination pathways.

Rani Brooks, Lisa Morici, and Nicholas Sandoval found that cell free phage synthesis from engineered strains improves yield.

This month on the PhageCast podcast, a new episode format has been released, with a focus on short stories from PhD students or early stage researchers. It has been opened up with Veronique Ongenae and her recently released paper: "Reversib

UCSD will soon open as a clinical trial site for Adaptive Phage Therapeutics' ACTIVE.2 trial, studying the safety and efficacy of APT's Phage Bank versus placebo in patients with prosthetic joint infections.

Heather Hendrickson and Peter Fineran have had a major new phage project funded: ~9 million to set up a phage pipeline to protect primary industries in New Zealand, such as kiwifruit and apiculture sectors. Their programme aims to create a

Kaat Schroven (KU Leuven) and colleagues discovered that the phage protein PIT2 directly interacts with the LasR T2SS effector, interfering with P. aeruginosa quorum sensing and attenuating virulence, inspiring a new potential phage-encoded

Julián Bulssico (Aix-Marseille Université) and colleagues have discovered that cell filamentation plays a key role in successful phage predation, leading to phage-antibiotic synergy.

Leo Kan and Jeremy Barr (Monash University, Australia) have written a new review entitled ‘A Mammalian Cell’s Guide on How to Process a Bacteriophage’.

I am a phage enthusiast and my abstract on phage therapy was accepted by the African Genetic Biocontrol Consortium for oral. However, I had to cater for registration, accommodation and travel fees. Unfortunately, I had to decline my partici

Dr. David Harper, an expert in phage technology, is launching The Phage Adviser, an advisory service for companies and researchers, aiming to provide guidance and support in the emerging field of phage technology.

Mike Tisza published a new pre-print (& great Twitter thread) on how bacterial and phage communities interact in the gut during the first years of life, as found by exploring the TEDDY dataset (12k samples from 800+ children in 4 countries)

Larissa Krüger (University of St. Andrews, UK) and colleagues discovered a reversible conjugation mechanism that regulates immune response to phage infection in Bacillus cereus bacteria.

Barbara Maciejewska (University of Wrocław, Poland) and colleagues elucidated the structure and function of the capsular depolymerase KP34gp57 from Klebsiella phage KP34, describing for the first time monomeric phage depolymerases (’mini-de

Sicelo Dlamini (University of Mpumalanga, South Africa) and colleagues studied how different encapsulation techniques affect phage viability and stability under simulated gastric conditions, and found that alginate–carrageenan-CaCO3 encapsu

Frank Oechslin (Université Laval, Canada) and colleagues have discovered that dairy practices have selected for thermostable endolysins in streptococcal phages.

Medical-grade phage is now available for expanded access through Tolka.ai's waitlist, after a year of hard work by Johan Wikstrom, Keqing Li, Thomas Hunt, Volodymyr Kulchytskyi, and the broader phage community; phage researchers can learn m

BBC Radio 4, a popular radio station in the United Kingdom, published a podcast episode titled "Bacteria: The Tiny Giants, Forests, Pharma and Phages" that explores various aspects of phage research and their impact on ecosystems.