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Clay Crippen (University of Georgia) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology showing that phages can lead multidrug resistant Acinetobacter isolates to release intact antimicrobial resistance determinants in vitro.

Moran Meir (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and colleagues published a new paper in Science Advances showing that competition between social cheater viruses is driven by mechanistically different cheating strategies.

Mpho Defney Maje (North-West University, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper on pathogenic, antibiotic-resistant Vibrio species found in drinking water, along with their isolation of two lytic phages that could be exploited f

Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Labs, Livermore, California) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems on their development of a new technology platform that enables on-demand phage production through computationally identifying

Menglu Li (Anhui University, China) and colleagues published a new paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics describing PredPHI (Predicting Phage-Host Interactions), a new deep learning-based tool for predic

Aurélie Fluckiger (Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, France) and colleagues published a new paper in Science showing cross-reactivity between tumor antigens and the tape measure protein encoded by an Enterococcus hirae prophage. Administering e

Carmen Gu Liu (TAILΦR, Baylor College of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in MBio describing phage-antibiotic synography, a comprehensive method of assessing the effects of phage-antibiotic combinations. They saw that phages c

Jimmy Trinh (Texas A&M University) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Communications looking at lambda phage infecting single host cells using live-cell and in-situ fluorescence imaging. They found that different viral DNAs esta

Holger Loessner (Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Germany) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics on the use of kinetic fingerprinting to explore the dynamics of specific phage-host pairs, with the goal of designing effective phage thera

Karim Abdelkader (Ghent University) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showing that an Acinetobacter baumannii phage lysin has a turgor pressure-dependent intrinsic antibacterial activity and can

Huijun Geng (Dalian University of Technology, China) and colleagues published a paper looking into phage therapy as a treatment for Staphylococcus aureus-induced mastitis using a mouse model. Mice with induced mastitis showed improved masti

Legesse Garedew Kifelew (Flinders University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Microbiology showing efficacy of a cGMP-produced phage cocktail in treating diabetic mouse wound infections caused by MRSA. They applied th

Some bacteria release colicins to kill competitors by carefully timing lysis for part of their population at a time. But group B colicins don't come with lysis genes, so how do cells safely release them? Stefanie Spriewald (LMU Munich, Germ

Multicopy plasmids contribute to antimicrobial resistance gene transfer, and although many don't contain mobility genes, they've been observed to contain phage fragments. Lorena Rodríguez-Rubio (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) and colleagu

We don't know much about phages in groundwater reservoirs, even though bacteria in these environments are thought to influence biogeochemical cycles. Ole Hylling (Aarhus University, Denmark) and colleagues published a new paper in Scientifi

Only a handful of prophage genomes targeting the phytopathogen Erwinia are available. In a new paper published in Frontiers in Microbiology, Nikita Zrelovs (Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre) and colleagues delved into temperate

Some phages attach to bacterial flagella, and thus have to withstand high drag and torque. But how? Joshua Hardy, Rhys Dunstan (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Communications that provides new in

Edison Cano (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota) and colleagues at Adaptive Phage Therapeutics published a new paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases showing the successful treatment of a patient's infected prosthetic knee with phage therapy, allowing t

Patrick Pausch (UC Berkeley) and colleagues have published a new paper in Science on a new 'minimal functional' CRISPR-Cas system comprised of a single 70-kDa protein, CasΦ, that they discovered in phages. This system is active in human and

Kaitlyn Kortright (Yale School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS showing their use of INSeq screening to rapidly identify candidate phage receptors. They successfully identified receptors for 4 well-characterized pha