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Ahmed Sofy (Al-Azhar University, Egypt) and colleagues published a new paper in Foods on their use of a polyvalent phage to successfully control coagulase-negative Staphylococcus strains (including biofilm dispersal) in a food setting.

Register for an upcoming virtual event on AMR and the requirement for a new business model for antimicrobials, hosted by members of European Parliament (June 4 at 12pm CET). Includes a talk by Jean-Paul Pirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospita

Phage Directory We learned that the CURE project partner from Sweden, which we wrote about in last week's Capsid & Tail article, "Could phages cure asthma?", is no longer part of the CURE team. Thanks very much to Sofia Romagosa at the Euro

Vitalis Phage Therapy In the 4th ed. of #AllAboutPhageTherapy we're honored to have Dr Elizabeth 'Betty' Kutter live in discussion. Lovingly referred to as “The First Lady of #PhageResearch”, Betty is one of the most experienced & respected

Alita Burmeister (Yale University) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS describing how pleiotropy complicates trade-offs between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance for a bacterial host, which has implications for phage thera

Anti-CRISPRs are widespread among phages, but it's been hard to screen for them. Jiawei Wang and colleagues at Monash University have developed an ensemble learning based predictor, PaCRISPR, to accurately identify anti-CRISPRs from protein

Check out how the US Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Chemical Biological Center is making use of a polymerized phage in biomanufacturing of BioCNFs, a black carbon material like charcoal that can help break up mustard

Register for an upcoming virtual event on AMR and the requirement for a new business model for antimicrobials, hosted by members of European Parliament (June 4 at 12pm CET). Includes a talk by Jean-Paul Pirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospita

Check out these two new phage-related podcast episodes: Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, Co-Director of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) discusses AMR on "This Podcast Will Kill You", and "The Bio Report" talks

Evgenii Rubalskii (Hannover Medical School) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics presenting their findings on using phage therapy to treat critical infections related to cardiothoracic surgery. They showed that phages (in com

Sean Carim (UC Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint on the systematic discovery of pseudomonad genetic factors involved in tailocin sensitivity. Tailocins are essentially headless phages that likely evolved from defective proph

Ruimin Gao (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Genomics showing a comparative genomic analysis of 142 bacteriophages infecting Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica (the full complement of the prophag

For some interdisciplinary research news, Rachel Yoon Kyung Chang, Philip Chi Lip Kwok (University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in Bioengineering and Translational Medicine on the stabilization mechanism of inhalable phag

Mahboubeh Soleimani Sasani & Fereshteh Eftekhar (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran) published a new paper in Current Microbiology discussing the findings from their phage therapy study to treat lobar pneumonia infection induced by Klebsiella

Maciej Konopacki (West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland) and colleagues published a new paper in Biochemical Engineering Journal describing PhageScore, a new approach for comparative evaluation of phage lytic activity.

Dmitry Antipov (Institute for Translational Biomedicine, Russia) and colleagues published a new paper in Bioinformatics on metaviralSPAdes, a tool for viral assembly from metagenomic data.

Ruoshi Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany) and colleagues published a new preprint on SpacePHARER, a tool that predicts phage-host relationships by identifying phage genomes that match CRISPR spacers in genomic o

Check out how the US Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Chemical Biological Center is making use of a polymerized phage in biomanufacturing of BioCNFs, a black carbon material like charcoal that can help break up mustard

Phage Directory We learned that the CURE project partner from Sweden, which we wrote about in last week's Capsid & Tail article, "Could phages cure asthma?", is no longer part of the CURE team. Thanks very much to Sofia Romagosa at the Euro

Ruimin Gao (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Genomics showing a comparative genomic analysis of 142 bacteriophages infecting Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica (the full complement of the prophag