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Phages avoid autoimmunity from cognate immune systems as an intrinsic part of their life cycles, according to a new paper by Jakob Rostøl (Imperial College London) and colleagues.

Phage banks are fragmented, and it’s time to unify them, according to a new review led by Gregory Resch (University of Lausanne) and including authors from Felix d’Herelle Center and DSMZ, two major phage repositories.

Phage-based technologies in the African AgriFood sector have major potential, according to a new report by Innovate UK as part of AgriFood Africa Connect.

Want a quick visual on global prevalence of Pseudomonas resistance to fluroquinolones? Or E. coli resistance to colistins? ResistanceMap is a new interactive visualization tool for looking at AMR around the world, created by One Health Trus

We are urgently seeking Peptostreptococcus/Finegoldia phages for a patient in Canada. 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 -

We are urgently seeking Peptostreptococcus/Finegoldia phages for a patient in Canada. 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 -

We are urgently seeking Peptostreptococcus/Finegoldia phages for a patient in Canada. 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 -

Round up time! This month we did our first 'Phage Picks' issue, dove into how prophages impact fly sperm, shared insights and recordings from Urmi's webinar series with top phage therapy clinicians, and Elisabet More from PDB Biotech taught

University of Exeter is hiring a Research Technician to support the work of the Westra and van Houte research teams on the development of synthetic phage therapy.

Imperial College London is hiring a Research Associate for a project led by Prof. José R Penadés to investigate lateral transduction in phages, exploring its prevalence in nature and impact on bacterial evolution, particularly regarding ant

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, is hiring a postdoc to model the ecological and evolutionary impacts of horizontal gene transfer and phage infections in microbial communities, integrating biophysics, ecology, and statistical physic

Aaryan Harshith (Stanford University) has just launched PhageBase, a dedicated phage TEM image database. There are already quite a few phages on there; feel free to upload your own! He wrote a blog introducing it here.

Phage researchers are invited to save the date for the 2024 International Soil Virus Conference in Livermore, California, USA, from June 25 to June 27, focusing on exploring the multifaceted roles of soil viruses within a One Health framewo

New phage textbook edition alert! Tristan Ferry, an ID physician in Lyon, announced the release of the second edition of "Bacteriophage Therapy; From Lab to Clinical Practice.". The book, edited by Sanna Sillankorva and Joana Azeredo, cover

NexaBiome (previously FixedPhage) has partnered with JAFRAL to ramp up development (a hundredfold increase!) of their industrial-scale production of immobilized phage. This is part of NexaBiome's strategy to expand deeper into the human hea

Danica Schmidtke (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint on how the prototypic crAssphage demonstrates a phage-plasmid lifestyle, persisting extrachromosomally without integrating into the host’s chromosome.

Fan Yang (University of Texas, Tyler School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper on phage therapy for the treatment of M. tuberculosis infections in humanized mice. They saw that mice infected with aerosolized TB then treated w

Ruo Han Wang (City University of Hong Kong) and colleagues published a paper on PhageScope: a new online phage database with comprehensive annotations comprising 873,718 phage sequences. It provides annotations on genome completeness, host

Paul Turner (Yale University) and colleagues have written a new review on gaps in modern phage therapy R&D. It includes some fun exploration of how AI & synbio could ease phage therapy logistics, a walkthrough of how and why new funding & r

This week, Dr. Elisabet More, Principal Scientist at PDB Biotech, shares how phages can be used as diagnostics, and how they use phages to detect M. tuberculosis hidden by the immune system. Although the use of bacteriophages for therapy is