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Bacteria sometimes acquire "incorrect" CRISPR spacers in response to phage infection. Until now, no one knew whether these incorrect ("slipped") spacers had a purpose. Simon A. Jackson, Peter Fineran and co. have just shown that slipped spa

Ampliphi Biosciences just published new pre-clinical data on its anti-Staphylococcus aureus phage cocktail.

A perspective on phage therapy as an anti-superbug option in India.

NIAID just issued a request for comments and suggestions on its Antibacterial Resistance Research Framework. Details: NIAID laid out 7 approaches for tackling AMR in 2014 (including exploring phage therapy!), and they're updating these appr

If you attended Phage Futures 2019 this week, you can get access to the speakers' slides by filling out Kisaco's exit survey. We've also created our own survey, since we're really interested in what kinds of events you want to attend. Here'

The UK government is making some new plans to tackle antibiotic resistance, including new incentives for pharma.

Voting in the ISVM (International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms) elections is open NOW through Feb 3! Check out the candidate bios here and vote here.

Robert Edwards and (many!) colleagues have published an exciting new preprint on the phylogeography and evolution of crAssphage around the world.

Anushila Chatterjee and colleagues published a new preprint showing that phage resistance in enterococci leads to reduced antibiotic resistance and reduced mouse gut colonization.

Guy Schleyer and colleagues published a new paper on "in-plaque" mass spec imaging to visualize what happens during (algal) viral infection. Here's the original paper and a blog post on the work.

The 4th annual OSU Viromics Workshop is May 8-10, 2019. The workshop kicks off with a mini-symposium, then introduces students and postdocs (and possibly early career faculty) to the informatics tools available to develop biological underst

Cell Host & Microbe just released a special issue devoted to phages!. This includes four free featured reviews, one of which is this article by Kaitlyn Kortright, Benjamin Chan, Jonathan Koff and Paul Turner of Yale University, where they d

Fernando L. Gordillo Altamirano and Jeremy Barr from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia have published a new review: Phage Therapy in the Post-Antibiotic Era. Their paper includes a nice timeline of phage therapy history and a beauti

Phages for Global Health has announced a call for applications for its first West Africa Phage Workshop, which will take place July 7 - 20, 2019, at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. Apply now!

Intralytix's phage clinical trial (treating E. coli in IBD patients) at Mt. Sinai hospital has begun! Here's a video interview with two Mt. Sinai doctors involved in the trial

Stephen Wandro and colleagues at the University of California, Irvine have published a new paper on Enterococcus faecium phage evolution. His experiments, which he presented at Kisaco Research's North American Microbiome Congress last week,

Great news for BiomX, a company developing custom phage therapies to treat microbiome-based diseases, which just raised $32 million in series B financing!

This commentary by Jens H. Kuhn and colleagues may convince you to care more about the need for cataloguing viral genomes.

Rob Lavigne at KU Leuven is seeking comments on his new preprint on patents related to phage use in agriculture. Comment under the paper on BioRxiv, or tweet @RobLavigne1!

Carol E. Zhou and colleagues report a new phage annotation pipeline called multiPhATE. Preprint and Github.