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The UK Parliament's Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages as a way to address antibiotic resistance. Here you can read 34 public letters contributed by the international

Zhou et al. published a new paper in Frontiers in Genetics entitled PhageTailFinder: A Tool for Predicting Bacteriophage Tail-Related Proteins.

The 6th World Congress on Targeting Phage Therapy 2023 will be held on June 1-2, 2023 in Paris, France. The aim of the meeting is to discuss all aspects related to phages and phage therapy. We will highlight the recent innovations and clini

The Phage Innovation Network will be launched by Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Network on Feb 16 2023 with an online event. This network is designed to bring together those in the UK with an interest in bacteriophages, their use and applic

Registration is now open for An Unfinished Life: AMR Awareness Australia: In collaboration with organizations across Australia, Diane Shader Smith and Richard Alm of CARB-X are hosting a multi day, multi city, multi speaker event to premier

Dann Turner and colleagues at the ICTV published a new paper describing the abolishment of the paraphyletic morphological families of Podoviridae, Siphoviridae, and Myoviridae, as well as the order Caudovirales, and the introduction of one

Daniela Rothschild-Rodriguez and colleagues published a new paper exploring the role of phages in influencing the mucosal integrity of the human gut, and how these interactions may affect health and disease states. They also cover phage-enc

Swapnil Ganesh Sanmukh (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia) and colleagues published a new paper in MDPI Cells on accessing the in vivo efficiency of clinically isolated phages against uropathogenic and invasive biofilm-forming Esche

Mellissa Gomez (McMaster University) and colleagues published a new paper describing the selection of stress-resistant Listeria monocytogenes phages, and the challenges in applying them to food production environments.

Joshua D Jones (University of Edinburgh) and colleagues authored a new perspective on why patients should not be transferred between healthcare jurisdictions for phage therapy in the UK.

The Phage Innovation Network will be launched by Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Network on Feb 16 2023 with an online event. This network is designed to bring together those in the UK with an interest in bacteriophages, their use and applic

The study surveyed 19 metagenomic phage-detection tools and benchmarked nine that could be installed and run at scale, comparing performance across fragmented genomes, simulated metagenomes, and real samples. Evaluation of computational pha

University of Exeter authors show, using Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 and phage DMS3vir, that antibiotics targeting protein translation raise CRISPR-Cas immunity against phages carrying anti-CRISPR (acr) genes by interfering with production

Raphael Hans wrote a new blog post on phage mediated biocontrol of phytopathogens for thephage.xyz.

National Geographic visited and wrote about Dr. Lillian Musila (Kenya Medical Research Institute) and her colleagues about their identification of over 150 phages and work toward using them to address AMR. The article features several Phage

Lucía Blasco and colleagues published a new paper describing 32 new phage tail-like bacteriocins (pyocins) from a clinical collection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and their potential use as typing markers and antimicrobial agents.

Hawkins et al. published a new paper which provides the first complete structural analysis of the S. epidermidis–infecting phage Andhra. Key findings include elucidating critical features for virion assembly, host recognition, and penetrati

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses recently adopted a binomial naming format for virus species. A new paper describes how to create Latinized binomials for virus species, how to automatically generate large batches of novel

Steffanie Strathdee, Graham Hatfull, Vivek Mutalik and Robert Schooley wrote a new review of the state of the art in phage therapy, covering biological mechanisms, clinical applications, remaining challenges, and future directions.

The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team, an undergraduate SEA-PHAGES team at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, announces the launch of the 2nd edition of the team’s journal issue, PHAMILIA. This is the very first undergraduate research jour