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Anushila Chatterjee (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS Genetics showing phage infection and sub-lethal antibiotic exposure mediate Enterococcus faecalis type VII secretion system depende

Fernando Gordillo Altamirano (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Microbiology showing that phage-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are resensitized to antimicrobials. They found that phage-resistant

Duhita Sant (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution showing that host diversity slows phage adaptation by selecting generalists over specialists. These findings support the evolution

Megha Shah (University of Toronto) and colleagues published a new paper in Molecular Cell showing how a phage-encoded anti-activator inhibits quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Repurposing CRISPR systems as antimicrobials is a new strategy being explored, and engineered phages could be a great way to carry them to their targets. Clément Fage (Université Laval, Canada) and colleagues published a new perspective in

Julie Stenberg Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and colleagues published a paper on the isolation and characterization of a novel phage Jarilo, which is active against the plant pathogen Pectobacterium carotovorum that causes so

Kristen LeGault (University of California, Berkeley) and colleagues published a new preprint showing how temporal shifts in antibiotic resistance elements govern virus-pathogen conflicts in Vibrio cholerae recovered from clinical samples. T

Gerald Misol, Jr. (Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Greece) and colleagues characterized a novel jumbo phage with broad host range against Vibrio harveyi, a major aquaculture pathogen. They did a trial in shrimp, which showed that this

Karthik Chamakura (Center for Phage Technology and Texas A&M) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Communications on host lysis genes discovered in leviviruses, which are single-stranded RNA phages. They characterized the function

Shannon Miller (Broad Institute) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Protocols on phage-assisted continuous and non-continuous evolution. This method allows directed evolution to occur much faster (100 rounds of evolution in 2 we

Lorraine Draper (APC Microbiome Ireland) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Biology showing the impact of faecal viral transfer (FVT) on the mouse microbiome after antibiotic perturbation. They saw that FVT helped the mice get back

Roberto Molina-Quiroz (Centro de Estudios Científicos, Chile) and colleagues published a new paper in mSphere showing that prophage-dependent neighbor predation in Vibrio cholerae leads to enhanced horizontal gene transfer by natural transf

Jiawei Wang (Monash University) and colleagues published a new paper in Nucleic Acids Research describing AcrHub: an integrative hub for investigating, predicting and mapping anti-CRISPR proteins.

Jolene Ramsey (Texas A&M University) and colleagues published a new paper in PLoS Computational Biology describing Galaxy and Apollo as a biologist-friendly interface for high-quality cooperative phage genome annotation. Researchers can use

Katie Bodner (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new paper in STAR Protocols showing how to engineer phages for live-cell imaging of prophage induction inside mammalian cells.

Yu Lin (University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics showing storage stability of phage-ciprofloxacin combination powders against Pseudomonas aeruginosa respiratory infections. The

There is currently no working treatment for recurring bacterial vaginosis (BV). Christine Landlinger (PhagoMed Biopharma GmbH) and colleagues published a new preprint in medRxiv showing that their engineered phage endolysin candidate elimin

Long-read genome sequencing suffers from high DNA requirements and sequencing errors, so Olivier Zablocki (Ohio State University) and colleagues developed VirION2, an integrated short- and long-read metagenomic wet-lab and informatics pipel

Vivek Mutalik (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) and colleagues published their method of high-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli in PLoS Biology. Sound familiar? We highlighted this paper's corresponding preprint

As there is currently no gold standard for developing a phage cocktail, Melissa Haines (University of Leicester, UK) and colleagues set out to describe a novel approach to phage cocktail development by comparing different methods side by si