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Joshua Kirsch (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new review in Annual Review of Virology on phage-bacteria interactions in the gut, from invertebrates to mammals. They discuss diverse interactions, includ

Microviridae (a family of tiny ssDNA phages) tend to dominate human viromes, yet little is known about them. Paul Kirchberger (UT Austin) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS describing how microviruses encode defensive hypervariabl

Yicheng Xie (Texas A&M) and colleagues published a research article in Frontiers in Microbiology on differential phage efficacy in controlling Salmonella in cattle hide and soil models. They found that phage ability to plaque on a bacterial

Daniela Staquicini (Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS on the design and proof of concept of two phage-based, cold-free COVID-19 vaccination strategies. They show that aerosol vaccination wi

Rebekah Dedrick (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Medicine on how antibody-mediated neutralization limited phage treatment of a pulmonary M. abscessus infection. They used the same phages that worked

Matthias Hoetzinger (Linnaeus University, Sweden) and colleagues published a paper in Environmental Microbiology on how the dynamics of Baltic Sea phages are driven by environmental changes. They isolated 121 phage strains infecting three b

Whitney Greene (Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, Florida) and colleagues published a paper in the Journal of Aquatic Animal Health describing the successful treatment of Shelley* the sea turtle with phages! *Some of you may remember us

Nichith Ratheesh (Arizona State University) published a preprint on how a member of the oral microbiota can actively transport phages by swarming, leading to disruption of E. coli biofilms. They found that Capnocytophaga gingivalis forms tu

Ankita Kothari (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) and colleagues published a paper in mSystems on how ecogenomics of groundwater phages suggests niche differentiation is linked to specific environmental tolerance. They analyzed gr

Nicholas Swanson (Thomas Jefferson University, USA) and colleagues published a paper in Molecular Cell on the cryo-EM structure of the periplasmic tunnel of the T7 DNA-ejectosome. They reconstituted the phage T7 DNA-ejectosome components an

Xiaorong Wu (The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC) and colleagues published a new paper in mBio on how phage T4 escapes CRISPR attack by 'minihomology' (very short stretches of sequence identity) recombination and repair. This

Bjorn Criel (Ghent University, Belgium) and colleagues published a research article in Viruses on PhaLP: a database for the study of phage lytic proteins and their evolution. This database serves as an open portal to facilitate the developm

Anna Dragoš (Technical University of Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in Current Biology on how phages carry interbacterial weapons encoded by biosynthetic gene clusters. They investigated phage-encoded Biosynthetic Gene Cluste

Rodrigo Ibarra-Chávez (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a review in FEMS on emerging applications of phage satellites in biotechnology. They found phage satellites exploit phages to ensure their own propagation and horizon

Kristopher Kieft (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and colleagues published a research article in Nature Communications on the ecology of inorganic sulfur auxiliary metabolism in widespread phages. They identified 191 phages encoding 227 au

Stephen Abedon (Ohio State University, USA) and colleagues published an opinion article in Viruses on improving phage-biofilm in vitro experimentation. They discuss current issues and suggest improvements in the design, interpretation and r

Joshua Borin (University of California San Diego) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS showing that coevolutionary phage training leads to greater bacterial suppression and delays the evolution of phage resistance. For example, they

Clément Coclet and Simon Roux (DOE Joint Genome Institute) published a review in Current Opinion in Virology on major challenges of host prediction methods for uncultivated phages. They highlight different approaches, giving their distinct

Stephan Tetter (ETH Zurich) and colleagues published a report in Science on developing virus-like 'artificial nucleocapsid' carriers for diverse vaccine and delivery applications. They evolved a protein that forms multimeric, spherical cage

Michael Tisza and Christopher Buck (National Cancer Institute, NIH) published a new paper in PNAS showing how a catalog of > 45,000 viruses associated with human bodies reveals hidden associations with chronic diseases. Specifically, they f