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CNRS, France is hiring a postdoc to study mechanisms of selective phage DNA packaging and bacterial DNA transduction in Bacillus subtilis.

In a recent interview, Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens (Quadram Institute) discusses her career journey to becoming a Group Leader, focusing on the role of phages in the gut microbiome to promote health and combat disease. She reflects on the dive

David Harper discusses the complexities and limitations of using phages as therapeutics in his recent LinkedIn post, emphasizing the challenges posed by the immune system and the size of phages compared to conventional antibiotics.

How do we remove impurities from our phage preparations, and get our endotoxins down close to zero? This week we've got Ažbe Žnidaršič and Lucija Rebula from Sartorius BIA Separations here to tell us about how CIMmultus monolith chromatogra

Dr. Andrea Fossati at the Karolinski Institute is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in phage biology and antimicrobial resistance to work on phage defense systems.

CIMmultus monolithic columns offer an efficient solution for phage purification, ensuring high recovery rates and fast processing to meet the demands of phage-based therapies. Sartorius BIA Separations' Cornerstone team is available to help

🎙️ 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

PhageEU is urging phage researchers to join their mission to raise awareness about the potential applications of phages and influence regulatory environments in the EU, especially with new parliamentary appointments on the horizon PhageEU m

Kurzgesagt released a new video on viromes and their impact on health, emphasizing the role of phages in microbiome dynamics! Check it out!

The BASEL collection of E. coli phages has been expanded — 36 new ones have been added! These phages were deeply characterized genomically and phenotypically, from receptors to antiviral defense sensitivity to host range. Looking at the res

Plasmid-dependent phages used to be used in phage typing, but haven’t survived the genomics era — there are no records of them in phage banks, and it’s been unclear if they can ever be recovered. However, a new wave of studies reporting the

A phage cocktail targeting Yersinia pestis provided ~88% post-exposure protection in a rat model of pneumonic plague!

Here’s a handy comparison of expression systems for phage lysin production, with key considerations for host selection and evaluating recent literature.

A new first in human phase 1 randomized, double-blind trial of Intralytix's ShigActive™, a Shigella phage preparation, shows it is safe and well tolerated when orally administered.

Welcome to the Podovirus podcast, episode 3! In this episode, I talk with Jesus Fernandez-Rodriguez from Eligo Bioscience, a Paris-based biotech company pioneering microbiome editing using modified bacteriophages. We talk about Eligo’s rece

It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the sixth rendition of our new format, where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. Hi phage phans, I hope you’re enjoying the summer! There’s a lot packed into this mon

Why isn’t phage therapy a thing yet? What’s taking so long? I’m super excited to share our new podcast, Podovirus. This is a new experiment. I wanted a (better?) excuse to have in-depth conversations with some of my favorite phage people,

Guadalupe Valencia-Toxqui and Jolene Ramsey (Texas A&M University) published a new phage classification guide, orienting newcomers to four common ways phages are currently classified: infection cycle, morphology, taxonomy, and supergroup. B

Nicolas Kieffer (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and colleagues published a new preprint on identification of phage defense systems encoded by mobile integrons, showing that integrons can encode phage defense systems, including Lamassu,

Max Wilkinson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and colleagues have described how phage-triggered reverse transcription assembles a toxic repetitive gene from a noncoding RNA, showing a new mode of genetic regulation in prokaryotes.