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The European Research Executive Agency has announced €7.3 billion in EU funding for research through Horizon Europe 2025 to support research careers and competitiveness.

Atif Khan and Hiren Joshi (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India) published a new research paper on selectively enriching and characterizing stress-tolerant phages for food biocontrol.

Bradley Cook (Cytophage Technologies) and Alexander Hynes (McMaster University) published a new paper on re-evaluating phage therapy criteria. They examine three commonly applied criteria for excluding phages from therapy: the lack of virul

Eleanor Rand (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new paper on a targeted phage discovery method called Phage DisCo, a co-culture-based phage screening technique. Using isogenic, fluorescently tagged bacterial strains, they c

Hi everyone, I'm a researcher based in Argentina working on a phage-based biocontrol project targeting spoilage bacteria in industrial fermentations, particularly lactic acid bacteria like Lactobacillus plantarum, L. fermentum, and L. brev

Reminder to register for the Phage Protein Meeting, taking place in Ghent, Belgium, on September 10-11, 2025. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together experts working with phage lysins/endolysins, tail fibers, tailspikes, depol

Stephen Tang (Columbia University) and colleagues published a new paper on protein-primed homopolymer synthesis, showing a novel bacterial antiviral defense mechanism involving synthesis of poly-dA DNA triggered by phage infection, driven b

Meaghan Castledine (University of Exeter) and colleagues published a new paper on interactions between phages and macrophages, showing macrophages reduced phage efficacy and increased bacterial phage resistance, potentially explaining varia

Liana Merk (Harvard University) and colleagues published a new paper on prevalence of group II introns in phage genomes, showing group II introns are widely present in phages from diverse phylogenetic backgrounds, contrary to previous assum

Nathan Novy (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues published a new paper on multiobjective learning and design of phage specificity, showing deep learning can enhance T7 phage infectivity and specificity toward diverse bacterial s

Tianjing She (Nanjing Agricultural University) and colleagues published a new paper on phage-mediated gene transfer in Salmonella, showing horizontal transfer of virulence genes in Salmonella enterica with regulatory feedback from the host.

Rand and colleagues present Phage DisCo (phage discovery by co-culture) in mSystems: bacterial strains that are isogenic except for fluorescent tags and one perturbation expected to affect phage infection are co-cultured on the same screeni

Review by Feng et al. in Precision Clinical Medicine on the human gut virome, 90%-95% of which is phages. It examines how the virome develops and how diet, environment, host genetics and immunity shape it, its associations with various dise

The International Antiviral Society-USA (IAS-USA) is hosting a webinar called 'An Introduction to Bacteriophages: Basic Science and Clinical Applications', taking place on June 30, 2025. This webinar consists of 2 lectures by Graham F. Hat

Hello phage community! 😃 We’re looking for a T-series E. coli K-12 phage (e.g., T2, T4, T7) engineered to express a red fluorescent protein (e.g., mCherry) fused to a capsid or tail protein — to track intact virions by microscopy. No induc

Bio Lab in Korea is currently seeking Paenibacillus relictisesami phages and Lysinibacillus macroides phages. If you have access to these phages and are willing to share them, please get in touch. We would greatly appreciate your support.

Another successful phage therapy clinical trial! Armata Pharmaceuticals and colleagues has announced positive topline results from its Phase 1b/2a trial of AP-SA02 for S. aureus bacteremia.

Lukeman Kharrat (San Diego State University) and colleagues published a new paper on phage immunogenicity assessment, showing a novel Bacteriophage Risk Index to predict CpG-mediated immune activation potential of phages and guide selection

There’s a lot of improvement we can engineer into phages! Phil Huss (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues published a new paper on engineering phages using metagenomic data, showing how deep mining of metagenomic motifs can be us

David Sünderhauf (University of Exeter) and colleagues published a new paper on CRISPR-Cas in plasmid competition, showing CRISPR-Cas benefits plasmids defensively but is limited by competitor toxin-antitoxin systems when horizontally trans