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It's Phage Picks time! This week we've got the fifth rendition of our new format, where we share the papers we keep bookmarked, and keep coming back to. Hey hey phage phans, It’s time again for our most well-loved post format — Phage Picks

Andreas Brödel (Eligo Biosciences) and colleagues have successfully edited E. coli genes in the mouse gut using engineered phages. They used (non-replicative) phage to deliver a base editor, and achieved >90% modification without adverse ef

Fereshteh Bayat (McMaster University) and colleagues have designed a high-throughput phage screening platform comprised of a portable library of individual shelf-stable, ready-to-use phages, in solid tablets that include a phage + luciferin

Hannelore Longin (KU Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues have reviewed the emerging role of posttranslational modifications during phage-bacteria interactions, highlighting their potential impact on protein behavior and suggesting a comprehensi

Emma Spencer (University of Idaho) and colleagues published a new preprint on phages of honeybee pathogen Paenibacillus larvae. They looked at resistance evolution and how phage resistant isolates developed reduced pathogenicity — and phage

A recent meta-analysis reveals that infections are a major (>50%) cause of non-relapse-associated deaths following CAR-T cell therapy.

Phagos (France) is hiring for various roles, including bioprocess and formulation engineers and lab technicians/assistants to advance phage therapy and research.

Prof. Dick de Ridder's Bioinformatics Group and Prof. Bas Zwaan's Laboratory of Genetics at Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands are seeking a PhD candidate to study the spatiotemporal diversity of phages. This role will combine bi

University of Leicester, UK is hiring a Research Technician to study dental phages and their interactions with oral pathogens.

On Nov 19-20, the International Alliance for Biological Standardization (Amsterdam, Netherlands) is hosting a virtual scientific workshop about the veterinary use of phages, specifically looking at quality, safety and efficacy. Speakers fro

In a recent episode of the PhageCast podcast, Graham Hatfull (University of Pittsburgh) discusses the importance of mycobacteriophages and their potential for phage therapy against M. abscessus.

IPATH is calling for labs to help find Achromobacter phages for an upcoming clinical trial for cystic fibrosis with phage therapy, inviting contributions and further information via email at ipath@health.ucsd.edu.

Cytophage Technologies Ltd. have shared the recording of their first investor call since becoming a public company.

A portable library of solid tablets, each encapsulating one phage with luciferin and luciferase stabilized in a pullulan-trehalose sugar matrix, detects phage-mediated ATP release as light when bacterial cells burst. The platform identified

PhageEU, a coalition founded by Proteon Pharmaceuticals (Poland), PTC Technology Center (Germany) and JAFRAL (Slovenia) that represents phages in industry, science and civil society, has registered as a non-profit organisation with its seat

The helix-turn-helix regulator Aca2 represses phage anti-CRISPR synthesis transcriptionally by binding DNA and also inhibits translation of the mRNAs by binding conserved RNA stem-loops and blocking ribosome access; a cryo-EM structure of t

This week, we feature Bishoy Maher Zaki, a PhD researcher who transitioned from phage isolation to phage bioinformatics. He’s currently streamlining phage genome analysis tools for the research community — and is asking for help from the ph

We are urgently seeking Enterococcus phages for a patient in the UK. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strains - By receiving the patient's strain and testing your phages - By helping spread

The Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg, Germany is hiring for multiple positions to study RNA phage defense mechanisms and molecular biology.

The University of Otago's Phi laboratory (led by Peter Fineran) in Dunedin, New Zealand is hiring an Assistant Research Fellow to develop phage-based biocontrols for bacterial pathogens in primary industries.