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Alfred Fillol-Salom (Univ. of Glasgow) and colleagues have uncovered how Gram-negative phage-inducible chromosomal islands (PICIs), a universal class of mobile genetic elements that impact bacterial virulence, hijack phage machinery for the

Noel-David Nogbou Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University Pretoria, South Africa Hello, I am looking for Acinetobacter baumannii bacteriophages and Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage OMKO1. This is for a research project. If you can help, plea

Before now, no virus has been reported to infect ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) from the phylum Thaumarchaeota (ubiquitous marine archaea). However, a new paper by Jong-Geol Kim (Chungbuk National Univ.) and colleagues describes the isolat

Phage surprises all around! Emma Piligrimova and colleagues at the Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms in Russia published a paper on a new Bacillus phage that was previously thought to be a plasmid, and whic

Amelia McKitterick and colleagues at UC Berkeley and the icddr,b in Bangladesh have published a new preprint on how Vibrio cholerae phage “satellites” (parasites of phages) adapt to their ever-evolving phage targets.—Provide comments on the

Amelia McKitterick and colleagues at UC Berkeley and the icddr,b in Bangladesh have published a new preprint on how Vibrio cholerae phage “satellites” (parasites of phages) adapt to their ever-evolving phage targets.—Provide comments on the

Mahsa Yazdi Gorgan, Iran I recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Isfahan, Iran. My thesis was entitled “Isolation and characterization of lytic bacteriophages against some of the most common bacterial causes

Mahsa Yazdi Gorgan, Iran I recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Isfahan, Iran. My thesis was entitled “Isolation and characterization of lytic bacteriophages against some of the most common bacterial causes

A new phage pharmacokinetics paper by Katarzyna Hodyra-Stefaniak and colleagues in Krystyna Dabrowska's group at the Polish Academy of Sciences has demonstrated a "short-circulating phage" phenotype that has implications for engineered phag

A new paper by Alexander Meeske and colleagues at Rockefeller University shows that CRISPR-Cas13, poorly understood compared to other CRISPR-Cas systems, leads to host cell growth inhibition (through degradation of both phage and host RNA)

A new paper by Bryan Hsu and colleagues at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital showed (in the mouse gut) that introducing phages led to predictable shifts in the targeted population, but also had "cascading effects" on non-phage-suscep

The now-constant flood of phage sequence data is showing that tailed phages are more genetically diverse than previously thought. This has led to a re-classification of tailed phages, which is described in a new paper by Jakub Barylski and

A new paper by Mohammad Tariq and colleagues at the University of Northumbria describes induction of temperate P. aeruginosa phages isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis or bronchiectasis. The more advanced the disease, the broader ho

Vorrapon Chaikeeratisak and colleagues at UC San Diego, the group that discovered that certain Pseudomonas phages replicate their DNA inside a phage-encoded nucleus-like structure, have now published that the capsids of these phages traffic

Vorrapon Chaikeeratisak and colleagues at UC San Diego, the group that discovered that certain Pseudomonas phages replicate their DNA inside a phage-encoded nucleus-like structure, have now published that the capsids of these phages traffic

A new paper by Mohammad Tariq and colleagues at the University of Northumbria describes induction of temperate P. aeruginosa phages isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis or bronchiectasis. The more advanced the disease, the broader ho

The now-constant flood of phage sequence data is showing that tailed phages are more genetically diverse than previously thought. This has led to a re-classification of tailed phages, which is described in a new paper by Jakub Barylski and

A new paper by Alexander Meeske and colleagues at Rockefeller University shows that CRISPR-Cas13, poorly understood compared to other CRISPR-Cas systems, leads to host cell growth inhibition (through degradation of both phage and host RNA)

A new paper by Bryan Hsu and colleagues at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital showed (in the mouse gut) that introducing phages led to predictable shifts in the targeted population, but also had "cascading effects" on non-phage-suscep

A new phage pharmacokinetics paper by Katarzyna Hodyra-Stefaniak and colleagues in Krystyna Dabrowska's group at the Polish Academy of Sciences has demonstrated a "short-circulating phage" phenotype that has implications for engineered phag