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Victoria Turzynski (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing imaging techniques for detecting prokaryotic viruses in environmental samples.

Rubén González (University of Valencia, Spain) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio showing the interplay between the host microbiome and pathogenic viral infections.

WIsH predicts the hosts of phages from their genomic sequences. It achieves 63% mean accuracy when predicting the host genus among 20 genera for 3 kbp-long phage contigs. WisH is also fast and accurate on phage sequences of a few kbp, makin

What an INCREDIBLE turnout on Twitter for #WorldPhageWeek this week! Thanks so much to all who have participated in our daily prompts — we've learned so much about the phage community, how people got into phages, what their favourite phage

David Picton (Durham University, UK) and colleagues published a new paper in Nucleic Acids Research showing the phage defence island of a multidrug resistant plasmid uses both BREX and type IV restriction for complementary protection from v

We now know megaphages (phages with extremely large genomes) are ubiquitous, but before now, no complete marine megaphage had been identified. Slawomir Michniewski (University of Warwick) and colleagues published a new paper in ISME Communi

Carlos Martinez-Soto (Guelph Research and Development Centre, Canada) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses describing PHIDA: a high throughput turbidimetric data analytic tool to compare host range profiles of phages isolated usi

Dipesh Khanal (University of Sydney, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in International Journal of Pharmaceutics on enteric-coated phage tablets for oral administration against gastrointestinal infections.

The EMBO podcast has released a new episode entitled 'the enemy of my enemy: the return of phage therapy'. This episode interviews Jonathan Iredell and Ameneh Khatami about their recent publication in EMBO Molecular Medicine on the seven-ye

Hello, I'm Asher (amehr22@dths.org)! I’m a high school senior in Los Angeles pursuing a project on phage therapy, and I’ve hit a massive roadblock in trying to order phages. I’m reaching out, hoping someone has info on how I can get them. I

Register now for the Southeast Asia Virtual Phage Workshop which will be held in March 2022 by the NGO Phages for Global Health. Scientists from lower and middle income ASEAN member states are invited to apply by Nov 6.

Register now for the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference held on November 2-5, by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Happy #WorldPhageWeek everyone! Don't forget to join in the Phage Week #scicomm challenge on Twitter. Keep an eye out on Twitter each day for a new prompt to answer! A selected winner will receive a custom art piece from Dr. Ellie Jameson.

Applications are now open for the Southeast Asia Virtual Phage Workshop which will be hosted in March 2022 by the NGO Phages for Global Health. Topics and activities will include: - Learning essential aspects of phage biology - Exploring e

Thank you to everyone that joined us for our October PHAVES, which was a talk by Bjorn Criel on the PhaLP database for phage lytic proteins that their group has developed — watch the recording here! If you miss any of the PHAVES events you

Viruses modulate carbon cycling, but it's been unknown whether they're active under winter conditions. Gareth Trubl (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) and colleagues published a new paper on active virus-host interactions at sub-freezing tem

Michael Shamash (McGill University) and colleagues published a new paper in The ISME Journal describing phages in the infant gut: a framework for virome development during early life.

Elhanan Tzipilevich (Duke University) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio showing how phage-resistant bacteria reveal a role for potassium in root colonization.

Lyman Ngiam (University of Queensland) and colleagues published a paper in Environmental Microbiology showing that phages isolated from non-target bacteria demonstrate broad host range infectivity against multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Shen-Yuan Hsieh (Quadram Institute Bioscience) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing a comparison of PCR vs. PCR-free DNA library preparation for characterising the human faecal virome.