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I am a phage enthusiast and my abstract on phage therapy was accepted by the African Genetic Biocontrol Consortium for oral. However, I had to cater for registration, accommodation and travel fees. Unfortunately, I had to decline my partici

Dr. David Harper, an expert in phage technology, is launching The Phage Adviser, an advisory service for companies and researchers, aiming to provide guidance and support in the emerging field of phage technology.

Mike Tisza published a new pre-print (& great Twitter thread) on how bacterial and phage communities interact in the gut during the first years of life, as found by exploring the TEDDY dataset (12k samples from 800+ children in 4 countries)

Larissa Krüger (University of St. Andrews, UK) and colleagues discovered a reversible conjugation mechanism that regulates immune response to phage infection in Bacillus cereus bacteria.

Barbara Maciejewska (University of Wrocław, Poland) and colleagues elucidated the structure and function of the capsular depolymerase KP34gp57 from Klebsiella phage KP34, describing for the first time monomeric phage depolymerases (’mini-de

Sicelo Dlamini (University of Mpumalanga, South Africa) and colleagues studied how different encapsulation techniques affect phage viability and stability under simulated gastric conditions, and found that alginate–carrageenan-CaCO3 encapsu

Frank Oechslin (Université Laval, Canada) and colleagues have discovered that dairy practices have selected for thermostable endolysins in streptococcal phages.

Can phage therapy be used in aquaculture to tackle bacterial infections and AMR? Dr G Paterson is seeking a PhD student: Bacteriophage biology and phage therapy, Based at Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh. This project will isolate

PHAXIAM Therapeutics and Vetophage, a Lyon-based company specialised in phage therapy for animal health, signed a long-term strategic research partnership to combine their expertise in discovering new phages and phage-derived proteins (endo

This month we heard about the ICBRAR phage conference in India, got an excerpt from The Good Virus by Tom Ireland, had a look behind the scenes of a Swiss team battling UTIs with engineered phages, and learned about speeding up the phage th

PhD Position in Phage Ecology in Microbial Communities at VU Amsterdam.

Oxford Silk Phage Technologies Limited (Oxford, UK) is hiring a phage technician.

Eugen Pfeifer (Jouy-en-Josas, France) is hiring a PhD student to study phages in the human gut using molecular biology and metagenomics.

The Frunzke lab (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) is seeking a PhD student to study bacterial antiviral immunity.

Medical-grade phage is now available for expanded access through Tolka.ai's waitlist, after a year of hard work by Johan Wikstrom, Keqing Li, Thomas Hunt, Volodymyr Kulchytskyi, and the broader phage community; phage researchers can learn m

BBC Radio 4, a popular radio station in the United Kingdom, published a podcast episode titled "Bacteria: The Tiny Giants, Forests, Pharma and Phages" that explores various aspects of phage research and their impact on ecosystems.

From @scientiff via Twitter: Hey #scitwitter! I’m troubleshooting some #phage DNA extraction woes with our undergrads. We use phenol-chloroform-isoamyl and phase-lock gels for the process but we’re still getting high 260/230 after elution.

The first patient in Armata Pharmaceuticals’ newest trial has been treated. This is part of the Phase 2a portion of their diSArm study, which evaluates the potential treatment of S. aureus bacteremia.

Jason Wilson (University of Sheffield) and colleagues published a new preprint on the molecular mechanism of phage tail contraction, shedding light on the structure of an S-layer-penetrating phage.

In a new Current Opinion in Microbiology piece, Jochen Klumpp, Matthew Dunne, and Martin Loessner explore the potential of phage receptor-binding proteins for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.