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Yue Clare Lou and colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley, published a new study on the persistence of infant gut DNA phage strains during the first 3 years of life.

Alan Schmalstig (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and colleagues published a new paper on phage infection and killing of intracellular Mycobacterium abscessus.

Han Altae-Tran (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and colleagues discovered over 200 new CRISPR-associated systems, including Cas14, an enzyme that cuts RNA precisely.

Shinwon Lee (Pusan National University Hospital, Korea) and colleagues conducted a survey revealing that Korean infectious disease specialists are receptive to phage therapy.

Phages in space!! Phil Huss (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues discovered that phage-host interactions in microgravity onboard the International Space Station have unique dynamics. They saw significant differences in mutationa

Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes (University of California San Diego) and colleagues discovered that jumbo phages are effective against extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in contaminated preservative-free eyedrops.

Abdulkerim Karaynir (Recombinant DNA and Recombinant Protein Center, Turkey) and colleagues have demonstrated the successful transformation of environmental DNA into an active phage in E. coli.

If you are using iPHoP for phage host prediction: a new update has just been released (1.3.3), alongside an updated host database now based on GTDB r214. Updated code and database available via conda / Docker. Report any issues here.

Tired of doing plaque assays? Check out the Bollyky lab’s new method to count phages and assess their bioactivity using a DLS Particle Size Analyzer, now published in PNAS. Great tweet thread here!

Baptiste Gaborieau (Université Paris Cité, France) and colleagues published a new preprint on predicting diverse phage bacteria-interactions at the strain level from their genomes only. They created a matrix of >38k phage-bacteria interacti

The Le Roux lab at the Université de Montréal is hiring a postdoc in Microbial Genomics to investigate Vibrio phage-bacteria coevolution and phage satellites.

Justin Boeckman (Center for Phage Technology, Texas) and colleagues published a protocol detailing methods for phage DNA extraction, genome assembly, and genome closure.

Erez Yirmiya (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and colleagues analyzed groups of closely related Bacillus phages that showed differential sensitivity to bacterial defense systems, and discovered four distinct families of anti-defense

Guy Mason and colleagues found that E. coli can persistently grow during phage predation in spatially confined environments.

Mikhail Skutel and colleagues demonstrate how the T5-like phage BF23 evades host-mediated DNA restriction and methylation.

Jumpei Fujiki and colleagues explore the fitness trade-offs between phage and antibiotic sensitivity in phage-resistant variants.

Mohammad Hashem Yousefi (KU Leuven) and colleagues have isolated and characterized a novel Salmonella Typhimurium phage called Arash, a novel species in the novel ‘Arashvirus’ genus, from hospital wastewater.

Tagide deCarvalho and colleagues at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County have imaged a satellite phage attaching to another phage. Check out their paper, where they’ve described two novel satellite-helper phage systems, Mulch and Fl

The newest issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases features a special collection of articles exploring various aspects of phage therapy, including standardization of phage susceptibility testing, phage annotation and nomenclature, advanced ma

Marion Bichet (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues found that phage T4 can enhance growth and survival of mammalian cells, shedding light on the potential symbiotic interactions between phages and their hosts.