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Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) and colleagues have shown that phages isolated from growth-stunted Bangladeshi children are different from those in non-stunted children. They show these phages are infectious i

The Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) conference (June 22-25 2020, Guelph, Ontario) will have an 'All about Phages' session! Register here.

First jumbophages and megaphages... now we have 'huge phages'. Basem Al-Shayeb (UC Berkeley) and colleagues have identified and classified hundreds of new giant phage genomes (one as large as 735 kb) from human, animal and environmental mic

Julie Callanan (APC Microbiome Ireland) and colleagues have greatly expanded the number of known ssRNA phage genomes. As of June 2019, only 12 were available in NCBI, but they sifted through 82 publicly available metatranscriptomes and dete

Prof. Daniel Nelson's lab at University of Maryland has been awarded funds to study endolysins as a treatment for acne caused by C. acnes.

It's hard to learn about prophage biology from genome sequence data alone. In a new paper, Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues at the University of Liverpool show us how they've used transcriptomic data to explore prophage bio

Phages in space! Dr. Vatsan Raman, a UW-Madison biochemist, is sending phages and bacteria to the International Space Station for an experiment on how microgravity and radiation affect phage-host interactions.

The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ECCMID) (April 18-21 2020, in Paris, France) will include several phage therapy sessions.

DeepPetri is an AI-based tool by Phages4A that semi-automatically determines, measures, and categorizes lysis zones of images of phage spot tests. Sign up to be notified when they launch, and stay tuned to take part in a survey looking at h

BiomX announces dual listing on the Tel-Aviv stock exchange.

Armata Pharmaceuticals and Innoviva have announced a $25 Million investment to support Armata's phage cocktail development.

We've seen Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) in the news a lot lately—here's an interview with Greg Merril, APT's CEO, a podcast interview with a patient whose leg was saved by APT's phages, and a news article on APT's selection for Startup

Aurélie Mathieu (Université Paris-Saclay) and colleagues have published an exciting new paper in Nature Communications: they isolated 150 E. coli phages from fecal samples from 1-year-old infants. Then they analyzed the host range of the ph

Lance Boling (SDSU) and colleagues tested 117 consumable compounds (like toothpaste, Stevia, aspartame) for their ability to induce prophages from four bacterial species. They found that certain compounds induced prophages (some in a specie

A new article in STAT News by Eric Boodman (one of our favourite phage journalists!) talks about how a phage has been found that kills Mallory Smith's infective Burkholderia cepacia isolate. In Mallory's honour, the phage has been named BCM

Attention phage companies with interests in addressing animal health challenges! You can apply here to showcase your solution at the Animal Microbiome and Nutritional Health Congress in Chicago Mar 3-4, 2020. (Apparently most companies who'

Listen to Jeremy Barr of Monash University's take on phage therapy and how close we are to bringing it to patients at scale. 16 min.

A new monthly podcast called Superbugs Unplugged covers antimicrobial resistance news (and even covers phages, in episode two!).

The Viruses of Microbes (VoM) conference is the official meeting of the International Society of Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM). We are pleased to open the call for organizing the next VoM conference, to be held mid-2022. Prospective org

The Viruses of Microbes (VoM) conference is the official meeting of the International Society of Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM). We are pleased to open the call for organizing the next VoM conference, to be held mid-2022. Prospective org