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Athina Zampara (University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new paper in Scientific Reports on the use of phage receptor binding proteins to enable endolysins ("Innolysins") to kill Gram-negative bacteria.

James Gurney (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper on 'phage steering': when phages are used to push pathogens to evolve to be less antibiotic-resistant. They show that Pseudomonas phage OMKO1 effectively pu

Katja Šuster (Valdoltra Orthopaedic Hospital, Slovenia) and colleagues published a new paper in The New Microbiologica describing their use of phage K to speed up Staphylococcus detection in prosthetic joint fluid.

Oriana Flores (Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing the isolation and characterization of 13 phages with the potential to control Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actini

Not much is known about filamentous phages, which chronically infect their hosts and can dramatically affect host physiology, but their genomes are starting to be detected by the hundreds. Jason Shapiro and Catherine Putonti (Loyola Univers

Liang Li (Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems showing the critical impact of the novel prophage ϕSA169 on MRSA persistence in the bloodstream.

Hugo Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showing that a phage tailspike with EPS-depolymerase activity, encoded by a phage belonging to a new genus within t

Marta Lourenço (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host and Microbe on how spatial heterogeneity in the gut limits phage predation and supports phage-host coexistence.

Andrew Hryckowian and Eric Martens have written a nice article on the backstory behind their recent paper on how capsular polysaccharides influence phage interactions with the gut symbiont Bacterioides thetaiotaomicron. Behind-the-paper | N

Josef Prazak (Bern University Hospital, Switzerland) and colleagues published a new paper in Critical Care Medicine showing that prophylactically administering nebulized phages to rats with experimental ventilator-associated pneumonia reduc

Bartłomiej Grygorcewicz (Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbial Drug Resistance showing that Acinetobacter baumannii phages could reduce biofilm biomass in a human urine model, a

Matthew Brown (Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, North Carolina) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses on the development and evaluation of a new phage-based MRSA diagnostic screen. The screen uses two luciferase reporte

Eric Sumrall (ETH Zurich) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology describing a novel phage protein tool kit that can be used for glycotyping and specific separation of Listeria monocytogenes

Phages use holin proteins to lyse cells from within. Tanbir Ahammad (Miami Univeristy, Ohio) and colleagues have used continuous-wave electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy to elucidate the structural dynamics and topology of phage Φ2

Md. Tanveer Hossain (Iwate University, Japan) and collaborators pubished an article in Viruses showing an evolution experiment where they adapt ssRNA phage Qβ to high temperatures. This adaptation occurred quickly, and did not lead to reduc

Ever wondered about phage abundance, diversity or geographic patterns of phage-host interactions in an urban setting like New York City? Kristen Gulino (New York University) and collaborators published a new paper in mSystems showing the in

Mihnea Mangalea and Breck Duerkop (University of Colorado School of Medicine) published a new minireview in Infection and Immunity on the physiological consequences of different phage resistance mechanisms, and how this understanding can im

Peter Voorhees (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and colleagues published a new review in the Journal of Controlled Release on the challenges and opportunities for phage-based in situ microbiome engineering in the gut.

Retrons are bacterial genetic elements comprised of a reverse transcriptase (RT) and a non-coding RNA, but their functions have been unknown for decades. Adi Millman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and colleagues published a new pre

Bacterial pathogens of fish cause major problems for fish farmers. Bernardo Veyrand‐Quirós (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico) and colleagues published a new paper in the Journal of Applied Microbiology showing that phage therapy incre