Search

Juergen Eckhardt, writing for Forbes magazine, recently wrote an article on phage therapy.

Min Wang (Ocean University of China) and colleagues have identified a new Halomonas phage in the Mariana Trench. This is the deepest known phage isolation.

This week Jessica Sacher shares ways the Phage Australia lab team has been improving efficiency of its phage therapy system, such as dividing up work, managing expectations, overcommunicating with clinical teams, and setting up solid lab do

Stanford University is hiring a Life Science Technician to assist in the study of phage mechanisms.

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is hiring a phage researcher to study phage mechanisms in MDR ESKAPE pathogens for wound infection countermeasure development in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France is hiring a postdoc to study the population structure and evolution of epidemic, emergent, and/or antimicrobial-resistant enteric bacterial pathogens.

University of Utah is hiring a lab assistant to study phage-related mechanisms.

University of Exeter is hiring a PhD researcher to employ high-resolution cryoEM imaging to achieve atomic-level structural characterisation of Burkholderia phages and study their adaptations to evade clearance by the innate immune system i

Phage Bites is back! The Bacteriophage Biology & Therapeutics (BBT) SIG is hosting their second symposium Sept 26 featuring brief presentations from postgraduate students on phage-related topics, followed by an expert panel discussion on "S

The 4th International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance is hosting ”Phages for Life”, a hybrid conference from Sept 28-30 in Chennai, India and online, with the theme of “Harnessing bacteriophages for human w

Phage Futures 2023, a free, one-day online conference which aims to bring together phage researchers and industry professionals to explore phage commercialization, is being hosted online October 25th by Kisaco Research. Read the full Agenda

Australia’s The Project showcases new Phage Australia work on a new children's CF clinical trial using phages.

Parallel Health, a new US phage skincare company, has announced $2.3M in funding and launched a custom phage therapy skin serum that targets bacteria causing skin conditions, offering personalized treatments based on individual skin microbi

Contrafect, a company developing ‘direct lytic agents’ (which include lysins and amurin peptides), has submitted an IND application for preliminary approval of a new IV antibacterial agent for treatment of hospital-acquired and ventilator-a

Benjamin Adler and colleagues have developed a broad-spectrum phage functional genomics platform using programmable RNA-binding protein dRfxCas13d, uncovering hidden infection strategies and predicting over 90 essential genes in phage genom

Jingxian Yang and colleagues have discovered that agr (quorum sensing) induction reduces expression of tarM (which encodes a glycosyltransferase responsible for modification of the major S. aureus phage receptor). This allows lytic phage St

Phables, a new computational method developed by Vijini Mallawaarachchi and colleagues, resolves phage genomes from fragmented viral metagenome assemblies, enabling the recovery of over 49% more high-quality phage genomes compared to existi

Researchers led from the Ocean University of China characterised Halomonas phage vB_HmeY_H4907, isolated from surface sediment of the Mariana Trench at a depth of 8,900 m. The authors describe it as the deepest isolated siphovirus from the

University of California, Berkeley researchers report the first observation of heat-induced electrical potential generation on a virus, studying the pyroelectric properties of the M13 phage. Modifying the pVIII coat protein with different n

PhD position: phage and oncolytic virotherapy at Leiden University in Leiden. Contact Dr. Tingjie Guo, t.guo@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl.