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Another story about phage application in marine aquaculture! Hyoun Joong Kim (Seoul National University) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing the preventive effects of phage against pathogenic Vibrio coralliilyticu

Ayesha Hassim (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing that an "aggressively lytic" phage hampered isolation of Bacillus anthracis from samples collected from the carcass of a wil

Lucy Furfaro (University of Western Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS ONE showing host range, morphological and genomic characterization of phages with activity against clinical Streptococcus agalactiae isolates from p

How should we optimally design phage cocktail timing and dosage to deal with evolutionary escape of pathogens? Guanlin Li and Chung Yin Leung (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper on using mathematical model

Thilini Jayasinghe (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology showing differences in compositions of gut bacterial populations and phages in 5–11 year-olds

Katarzyna Leskinen (University of Helsinki) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses on how they determined the genome of a non-sequenceable Yersinia phage YerA41 via RNA-sequencing.

Gang Wang (Jiangnan University) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology showing the diversity of the CRISPR-Cas system and prophages present in the genome reveals co-evolution of Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum a

What's new in the world of molecular mechanisms of lysogeny? Margit Pedersen and colleagues (University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark) have published a new paper in Scientific Reports investigating repressor binding inte

The Skurnik group at the Unviersity of Helsinki recently published three phage papers in Viruses! The papers span Yersinia phages, Acinetobacter phages, and Klebsiella phages, and between them they cover lytic, temperate and even "non-seque

Dragica Damnjanovic (UNSW Sydney) and colleagues published a paper in BMC Microbiology on phage genotyping using repetitive-PCR, a rapid and inexpensive method to preliminarily screen phage isolates prior to selecting them for future studie

Kristopher Kieft and colleagues (University of Wisconsin-Madison) published a new paper in Microbiome about VIBRANT, a new hybrid machine learning and protein similarity approach for automated recovery, annotation and curation of microbial

Rafael Gonzalez-Serrano (Universidad Miguel Hernández) and colleagues published a new paper in MSystems describing an Alteromonas-targeting phage representing a new marine myovirus genus. They also determined that this phage requires a tail

Taylor Miller-Ensminger (Loyola University, Chicago) and colleagues published a new paper in PLOS ONE introducing Lu-1, a novel Lactobacillus jensenii phage abundant in the urogenital tract.

Could phage therapy target bacterial meningitis? Christian Møller-Olsen (University of Warwick, UK) and colleagues have shown that phage K1F can infect E. coli within cerebral endothelial cells without eliciting an inflammatory response. Th

Hans Gerstmans (Ghent University, Belgium) and colleagues published a new paper in Science Advances on a VersaTile-driven platform for rapid hit-to-lead development of engineered lysins. Stay tuned; next week's feature article will be a beh

David Olivenza (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) and colleagues published a new paper in Environmental Microbiology on a fascinating new epigenetic system that can detect a wide range of phages and identify the type of receptor they recognize

Shannon Slattery (University of Limerick, Ireland) and colleagues published a new paper in Scientific Reports describing the isolation of a Proteus mirabilis strain from wastewater harbouring an integrative conjugative element (ICE) contain

Ahmed Sofy (Al-Azhar University, Egypt) and colleagues published a new paper in Foods on their use of a polyvalent phage to successfully control coagulase-negative Staphylococcus strains (including biofilm dispersal) in a food setting.

Alita Burmeister (Yale University) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS describing how pleiotropy complicates trade-offs between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance for a bacterial host, which has implications for phage thera

Anti-CRISPRs are widespread among phages, but it's been hard to screen for them. Jiawei Wang and colleagues at Monash University have developed an ensemble learning based predictor, PaCRISPR, to accurately identify anti-CRISPRs from protein