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The same group that brought us the fascinating study on filamentous phage Pf's influence on P. aeruginosa virulence has published another study on the same phage. This time, they describe Pf prevalence (high) and implications (increased ant

Phigaro is a scalable command-line tool by Elizaveta Starikova and colleagues for phage and prophage prediction from nucleid acid sequences (including metagenomes). It can also produce annotated prophage genome maps and distinguish tailed f

A new phage product is now on the market! OmniLytics, Inc. and Certis USA have released AgriPhage™, which fights fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) in apple and pear crops. This is the first phage product approved for use against fire blight.

Micreos, a Dutch phage biotech company, secured 30 million Euro last month for its phage lysin technology. The company plans to use the funds for lysin development, and to launch its over-the-counter Gladskin product (anti-Staph aureus lysi

Here's our favourite #phagetwitter conversation from the week: John Beaulaurier of Oxford Nanopore describes a new preprint on using single-molecule nanopore sequencing to avoid assembling phage genomes. Without assembling, they got >1400 w

Phage genomes can be hard to annotate, especially with tools that aren't designed with phages in mind. Fortunately, Katelyn McNair and colleagues in Rob Edwards' lab have published a paper describing their new phage gene caller, PHANOTATE.

A new preprint by Dr. Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan and colleagues at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia and AmpliPhi Biosciences provides much-awaited data from their IV phage therapy treatment of 13 patients wi

What love, community, and phages can do: this week, we bring you a review of Steffanie Strathdee and Tom Patterson's phage therapy memoir, The Perfect Predator. This week, I've reviewed a book: The Perfect Predator—A Scientist's Race to Sav

Dr. Mike Barer and Dr. Martha Clokie Mike Barer and Martha Clokie of the University of Leicester are hiring a PhD student researcher to study the detection of pathogen-specific bacteriophages in face-mask samples to distinguish colonisation

Dr. N. M. Taylor The Taylor group is studying the structure and mechanism of biological molecular machines using cryo-electron microscopy. We are especially interested in resolving structural and functional pathways of bacteriophages and hu

A new preprint by Dr. Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan and colleagues at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia and AmpliPhi Biosciences provides much-awaited data from their IV phage therapy treatment of 13 patients wi

Phage genomes can be hard to annotate, especially with tools that aren't designed with phages in mind. Fortunately, Katelyn McNair and colleagues in Rob Edwards' lab have published a paper describing their new phage gene caller, PHANOTATE.

Here's our favourite #phagetwitter conversation from the week: John Beaulaurier of Oxford Nanopore describes a new preprint on using single-molecule nanopore sequencing to avoid assembling phage genomes. Without assembling, they got >1400 w

A new phage product is now on the market! OmniLytics, Inc. and Certis USA have released AgriPhage™, which fights fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) in apple and pear crops. This is the first phage product approved for use against fire blight.

Micreos, a Dutch phage biotech company, secured 30 million Euro last month for its phage lysin technology. The company plans to use the funds for lysin development, and to launch its over-the-counter Gladskin product (anti-Staph aureus lysi

Dr. Mike Barer and Dr. Martha Clokie Mike Barer and Martha Clokie of the University of Leicester are hiring a PhD student researcher to study the detection of pathogen-specific bacteriophages in face-mask samples to distinguish colonisation

Dr. N. M. Taylor The Taylor group is studying the structure and mechanism of biological molecular machines using cryo-electron microscopy. We are especially interested in resolving structural and functional pathways of bacteriophages and hu

An observational, open-label study assessed adjunctive intravenous AB-SA01 phage therapy in 13 critically ill patients with severe Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, including six with endocarditis, alongside standard medical and surgical c

Beyond therapeutics, phage-based diagnostics show the versatility of phages in biotech. This week, guest writer Cathy Nguyen takes us through three examples of phage-based diagnostics. Phage-based diagnostics have been implemented in variou

A Research Fellow is required within the School of Life Sciences to support a new project in collaboration with partners in China entitled ‘Novel biocontrol to combat Clostridium perfringens in poultry flocks’. Ideally you will have a stron