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The International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya has partnered with the Université Laval in Canada to develop phage products against Salmonella to treat poultry in Kenya. The project is funded by Canada’s International Development Re

Nicolas Dufour of the Institut Pasteur and colleagues have shown that lysis of E. coli by phages in mice (as a treatment for pneumonia) did not increase innate inflammatory responses compared to an antibiotic treatment.

##### Call for Posters for Phage Futures Europe, Brussels, September 25-26 Looking to showcase your recent work to the phage therapy community? Phage Futures Europe is accepting abstract submissions for poster presentations. Your poster wil

Mian Li Ooi and colleagues at the University of Adelaide and Ampliphi Biosciences published a paper on their use of phage therapy in a phase I clinical trial to treat patients with chronic rhinosinusitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus. The

Sociovirology is the study of conflict, cooperation and communication of viruses. To get up to speed on this rapidly advancing new field, check out this news feature in Nature by Elie Doglin.

Brianna Weiss and colleagues from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) presented work at ASM Microbe this past week that showed their identification of phages in kitchen sponges. This project started as part of an undergraduate resea

Submissions are now open to a new Bacteriophage Collection within the journal Microbial Genomics (a Microbiology Society journal). Here’s their tweet: #Bacteriophages are a key tool in biological research, and this new collection will bring

PhagoMed, an Austrian phage therapy company, announced this week that it’s received 1.5 million Euro in additional investment!

Amelia McKitterick and colleagues at UC Berkeley and the icddr,b in Bangladesh have published a new preprint on how Vibrio cholerae phage “satellites” (parasites of phages) adapt to their ever-evolving phage targets.—Provide comments on the

Listen to Paul Turner of Yale describe his group’s phage research and phage therapy work (they’ve treated 16 patients so far!) on This Week in Evolution (TWiEVO), an ASM podcast. This one was recorded live at last week’s ASM Microbe confere

Amelia McKitterick and colleagues at UC Berkeley and the icddr,b in Bangladesh have published a new preprint on how Vibrio cholerae phage “satellites” (parasites of phages) adapt to their ever-evolving phage targets.—Provide comments on the

PhagoMed, an Austrian phage therapy company, announced this week that it’s received 1.5 million Euro in additional investment!

Listen to Paul Turner of Yale describe his group’s phage research and phage therapy work (they’ve treated 16 patients so far!) on This Week in Evolution (TWiEVO), an ASM podcast. This one was recorded live at last week’s ASM Microbe confere

Submissions are now open to a new Bacteriophage Collection within the journal Microbial Genomics (a Microbiology Society journal). Here’s their tweet: #Bacteriophages are a key tool in biological research, and this new collection will bring

##### Call for Posters for Phage Futures Europe, Brussels, September 25-26 Looking to showcase your recent work to the phage therapy community? Phage Futures Europe is accepting abstract submissions for poster presentations. Your poster wil

Mian Li Ooi and colleagues at the University of Adelaide and Ampliphi Biosciences published a paper on their use of phage therapy in a phase I clinical trial to treat patients with chronic rhinosinusitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus. The

Nicolas Dufour of the Institut Pasteur and colleagues have shown that lysis of E. coli by phages in mice (as a treatment for pneumonia) did not increase innate inflammatory responses compared to an antibiotic treatment.

The International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya has partnered with the Université Laval in Canada to develop phage products against Salmonella to treat poultry in Kenya. The project is funded by Canada’s International Development Re

The winner of the Microbiology Society’s 2019 Fleming Prize for outstanding research is Prof. Peter Fineran, Associate Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Watch Prof. Fineran’s award talk on phage resistance systems here.

Sociovirology is the study of conflict, cooperation and communication of viruses. To get up to speed on this rapidly advancing new field, check out this news feature in Nature by Elie Doglin.