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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A new phage therapy book edited by Aidan Coffey (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland) and Colin Buttimer (University College Cork, Ireland) has been published by Caister Academic Press. The book is entitled "Bacterial Viruses: Exploitatio

Phage Directory Sign up to present your research in the upcoming Phage Directory Virtual Events Series! And let us know who you'd like to hear from, or suggest a topic, via email: events@phage.directory. We'll be tailoring the format of th

Vitalis Phage Therapy Tune in at 11 a.m. IST this Sunday, 24th May for a live discussion with Dr. Gopal Nath, who will talk to us about his experiences with clinical application of phage therapy, presenting phage therapy to medical regulato

Denish Piya (UC Berkeley) and colleagues at the Center for Phage Technology in Texas published a new paper in Scientific Reports on using genome-wide screens to identify Escherichia coli host factors required for propagation of two novel ph

Phage GIFs galore! Curtis Hoffman (@phagehunter on Twitter) has collected a large assortment of phage GIFs!

Eugene Koonin (NCBI) and colleagues published a new paper on a new proposed megataxonomy of the virus world. Simon Roux raves about this paper on Twitter, calling it a "near-complete unification of viral taxonomy", and lists his favourite n

Ortal Yerushalmy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics describing their newly-created Israeli Phage Bank (IPB). Read about their collection of around 300 phages matching around 21 bacterial spe

Check out this fantastic spotlight of the people and goals behind BCM TAILΦR Labs, a recently-established phage therapy service center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Founders Anthony Maresso, Austen Terwilliger and Sabrina

Dr. Panos Kalatzis gives a detailed interview on starting his biotech company Aquatic Biologicals in Greece, which is using phages to target fish pathogens threatening aquaculture.