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In a new opinion piece in the Boston Globe, Kevin Outterson and Henry Skinner discuss the global threat of antibiotic resistance.

McMaster University researchers (Lei Tian, Zeinab Hosseinidoust and colleagues) crosslinked half a million filamentous phages into each soft microgel, producing over 35,000 microgels per square centimetre of film template, a 13-billion-phag

Phages for Global Health is planning to deliver hands-on phage workshops in Africa and Asia again, with a new curriculum that incorporates the best parts of the virtual teaching from the past year into an updated workshop curriculum with 2

The Africa Phage Forum will be hosting a webinar on December 6th, 2022 at 3:00 PM East Africa Time (EAT) or 12 PM GMT. The webinar, titled 'Safety Evaluation of Phages Infecting Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae for Therapy in Low-

The FDA approved Rebyota, the first fecal microbiota product, for the prevention of recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in individuals 18 years of age and older. Rebyota is administered rectally as a single dose and is pr

Innovate UK KTN has launched the Phage Innovation Network to drive innovation in the regulation and development of phage technologies for applications across multiple sectors, ensuring the UK maintains its strong stance on tackling antimicr

In a new paper in Viruses, Fedor Zurabov (MicroMir, Russia) and colleagues report that phage cocktails were safely administered to thirty patients after COVID-19.

In a new paper in Viruses, Maik Wolfram-Schauerte and colleagues (Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology) apply transcriptomics and proteomics to characterize the temporal patterns of transcription and protein synthesis during T4

Panagiotis Zagaliotis (Weill Cornell Medicine New York) and colleagues published a new review in Pathogens and Immunity on the therapeutic phages for Gram-negative bacterial infections in animals and humans.

The 3rd International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance (ICBRAR – 2022) will be held on 26 & 27 November 2022 at Karnatak University Dharwad in India.

Eligo Bioscience just announced the issuance by the US Patent and Trademark Office of the first patent in a wide family covering genetic engineering of Cutibacterium acnes to support therapeutic interventions in multiple serious skin disord

In this opinion piece for USA Today, Mallory Smith's mother, Diane Shader Smith, describes her daughter's preventable death from a drug resistant infection, and reflects on the opportunity that currently exists for US Congress to pass the P

In a new paper in eLife, Amelia McKitterick (Harvard University) and colleagues used bacteriophages Cog and CL31 to discover host factors important for phage infection of Corynebacterium glutamicum. They identified an important role for myc

Matthew Johnson (University of California, San Francisco) and colleagues have developed a computational tool to broadly identify anti-phage systems, which they applied to Pseudomonas aeruginosa genomes.

Oliver Charity (Quadram Institute Bioscience) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbial Genomics on how increased phage resistance through lysogenic conversion accompanies emergence of a Salmonella Typhimurium pandemic strain.

Sabrina Green via Twitter: “Is there an early career researcher that you really enjoyed hearing from in a presentation? Preferably #phage person or microbial virus related?!”

The Ibadan Phage Research Team has released recordings from their recent phage symposium for World Phage Week — check it out!

The Department of Applied Genetics, Karnatak University in association with the Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy, India is organizing the 3rd International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance – 20

Emily’s Entourage, a nonprofit foundation that accelerates research for new treatments and a cure for the final 10% of people with cystic fibrosis, including those with nonsense mutations, announced it has awarded $220,000 in funding to Gra

DeepMind's AlphaFold and Meta's ESMFold are two AI-based methods for predicting protein structures. According to this article by Ewen Callaway, DeepMind's method is more accurate but takes longer, while Meta's method is faster but less accu