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Tridib Mahata (Tel Aviv University) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS showing a new phage mechanism for selective nicking of dUMP-containing DNA.

Valuable phages have good shelf-life properties, but how can we reliably characterize the structural parts of the phage particle? Tze Thung (Centre to Impact AMR, Monash University) and colleagues published a new mSystems paper on their new

Branko Rihtman (University of Warwick) and colleagues have published a new paper in Current Biology on their identification of an unusual nucleotide substitution from deoxythymidine to deoxyuridine in a novel family of phages belonging to N

Carlos Guerrero-Bustamante (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio showing their progress toward developing a phage cocktail for tuberculosis; using genome engineering and phage genetics, they have created a

Graça Pinto (University of Minho) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Genomics showing insights into the genome architecture and evolution of Shiga toxin encoding phages of E. coli.

Shakhinur Islam Mondal (APC Microbiome Ireland) and colleagues published a new paper in International Journal of Molecular Sciences that characterizes a Clostridioides difficile-specific endolysin that affects spore outgrowth.

Danielle Campbell (University of Illinois) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Reports showing that infection with Bacteroides phage BV01 alters the host transcriptome and bile acid metabolism. News article | Paper

Wai Hoe Chin (Monash University) and colleagues published a new preprint showing phage adaptation to a mammalian mucosa reveals a trans–domain evolutionary axis. Paper | Tweet thread

Betty Shen (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) and colleagues published a new paper in Structure showing coordination of phage genome degradation versus host genome protection by a bifunctional restriction-modification enzyme visualize

Colin Lam (Roche Molecular Systems) and colleagues published a new paper in ACS Synthetic Biology showing a tail fiber engineering platform for improved bacterial transduction-based diagnostic reagents.

Ryan Cook (University of Nottingham) and colleagues published a new paper describing INfrastructure for a PHAge REference Database (INPHARED): a way to identify large-scale biases in the current collection of phage genomes. It includes a sc

Larissa Kever (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) and colleagues published a new preprint showing that aminoglycoside antibiotics inhibit phage infection by blocking an early step of the phage infection cycle. Paper | Tweet thread by Aël Ha

Mihnea Mangalea (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe showing that individuals at risk for rheumatoid arthritis harbor differential intestinal phage communities with distinct

Keiko Salazar (Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio showing antiviral resistance and phage counter adaptation to antibiotic-resistant Extraintestinal Pathogenic E. coli.

Courtney Davies (Massey University, New Zealand) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology showing that Mycobacteriophage endolysins can kill Mycobacteria when fused to 'PLAN-M' biodegradable nanobeads, which can be

Not one but THREE new papers published today in Science on phage DNA modications; they collectively describe a new pathway for purine biosynthesis and substitution of adenine by diaminopurine, found to be widespread in phages! Check out thi

Most tests for Lyme Disease detect antibodies, which are often not present until weeks after infection by the causative pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi. Jinyu Shan (University of Leicester) published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology

Jutta Kasurinen (University of Helsinki) and colleagues published a paper in Viruses on a new method for screening for phage-encoded toxic proteins using a Next Generation Sequencing-based assay.

Pappu Mandal (University of Technology Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbiology showing that phage infection of E. coli leads to the formation of membrane vesicles via both explosive cell lysis and membrane blebbing.

Prisca Perlemoine (University Grenoble Alpes, France) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS ONE on phage susceptibility testing and infectious titer determination through wide-field lensless monitoring of phage plaque growth.