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Clara Torres-Barceló (University of Montpellier) and colleagues introduce the Phylogenetic Host-Range Index (PHRI) — a new metric to classify phages as specialists or generalists based on bacterial genetic diversity. Using phages infecting

Rabia Fatima (McMaster University) and colleagues have published a new review on phage-antibiotic synergy against Pseudomonas, synthesizing clinical successes and the mechanisms behind them while underscoring the tenuous links between curre

Toni Nagy (University of Colorado, Boulder) and colleagues published a new paper on systematic identification of phage immune triggers, showing that screening 400 phage proteins across 72 E. coli strains revealed over 100 phage-host immune

Chujin Ruan (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)) and colleagues published a new paper on how phage-mediated peripheral kill-the-winner facilitates the maintenance of costly antibiotic resistance.

Afif Jati (Monash University) and colleagues published a new paper in npj Viruses on how highly stable phages PIN1 and PIN2 have hallmarks of flagellotropic phages but infect immotile bacteria.

Phages 2025 Oxford — 15th International Conference Dates: 01-02 September 2025 Email: PhageOxford@gmail.com X: @PhageOxford; Hashtag: #PhgOx25 Important Dates: • Poster Abstracts: 15 Aug 2025 • Digital Posters and flash-talk videos: 25

Taruna Anand and colleagues (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) created a new educational phage app, providing an educational resource on phage biology, detection techniques, properties, and applications in therapy for students, resea

Zhang and colleagues, including Franklin Nobrega, report in Cell that the widespread two-component Kiwa defence system, a transmembrane sensor KwaA and a DNA-binding effector KwaB, assembles into a large membrane-associated supercomplex (cr

Join Evergreen 2025 Virtually! Phagebiotics Research Foundation is excited to announce a virtual attendance option for the 26th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting 📅 August 3–8, 2025 | 📍 Knoxville, Tennessee In response to o

As part of the Evergreen Phage Meeting, Phages for Global Health is organizing a pre-conference workshop on phage purification technologies. It will include six experts giving short presentations on different purification techniques that c

Looking for lytic phage against Streptococcus mutans strains NLML9, N66, and/or UA159. Bonus points if for a lytic phage against Streptococcus gordonii DL1! Thanks so much! — Amelia Schmidt

Phage Australia at Westmead Health Precinct is hosting a course called Phage Therapy 101 for Healthcare Professionals on Nov 14, 2025, aiming to equip prescribers with practical know-how for safe, genomics-guided phage therapy.

Recent microbiology graduate applying to graduate schools. Looking for programs focusing on ABR pathogens and/or molecular phage biology. Would greatly appreciate a chance to chat about opportunities in the field. Thanks! — Ivan

Marina Mahler (University of Otago) and colleagues published a new paper on arabinosyl-hydroxy-cytosine DNA modifications, showing that these modifications enable phages to evade DNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas and restriction systems while remain

Per Kristian Thorén Edvardsen (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) and colleagues published a new paper on a cryptic prophage endolysin with muramidase activity. They solve its crystal structure and show 10,000-fold higher activity than

Xiang Hou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper on gut phage-induced macrophage reprogramming, showing phages epigenetically prime macrophages via IL-10 to generate LPS-tolerant innate memor

Xiang Hou (Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China) and colleagues published a new paper on a repressor, RptR, that controls Type I restriction modification system defence islands. They show that RptR binds TAGCTA repeats to silence

Is passion enough for to keep our industry going? Jennifer Leeds (ex-Novartis; one of the microbiologists who had to help shut down Novartis’ infectious disease department) published a new perspective on antibiotic R&D talent drain, sharing

Review by Choudhary, Bankole, McDuffee, Parajuli, Poudel, Balogh, Paret and Jones in Viruses on bacteriophages as biocontrol agents against plant bacterial diseases, as an alternative to antibiotics. It discusses barriers to implementation

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