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The 4th International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance is hosting ”Phages for Life”, a hybrid conference from Sept 28-30 in Chennai, India and online, with the theme of “Harnessing bacteriophages for human w

The Computational Phage Genomics Programme 2023 at the University of Copenhagen runs in-person Oct 27 - Nov 3, offering hands-on experience analysing phage genome sequencing data, from raw NGS reads to a fully assembled and annotated phage

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics is combating antibiotic resistance with phage therapy in a new film, Race Against Resistance debuting September 5, as they take viewers on a phage hunt through the zoo to find out where phages come from.

Antibiotics journal is inviting submissions for a special issue on "Phages and Their Derived Products as Novel Strategies to Combat Bacterial Infections", with submission deadline on 31 Dec 2023.

In a new episode of Phagecast, the hosts speak with Ben Burrowes, CEO of BB Phage Consultancy, known for his work on phage training, A.K.A. the Appleman’s protocol.

Franklin Nobrega’s phage team at the University of Southampton, UK have created KlebPhaCol, an open-source collection of 52 Klebsiella phages and 61 clinical strains with associated data, which is now available for scientists to request and

Jean-Paul Pirnay at the Queen Astrid Military Hospital and colleagues published a new preprint on their center's first 100 cases of personalized phage therapy. They report clinical improvement in 77% of cases, and eradication of the target

Sofia Dahlman (Monash University, Australia) and colleagues characterized 125 active prophages from 252 human gut bacterial isolates, revealing that temperate gut phages are prevalent, diverse, and predominantly inactive.

Katherine Wetzel and colleagues found that trehalose polyphleates (large surface-exposed glycolipids) are required for infection of Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium smegmatis by clinically useful phages BPs and Muddy.

Hans Carlson (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) and colleagues found that phages most influence terrestrial microbial functional ecology in hot spots and 'hot moments' such as metazoan guts, drought influenced soils, or biofilms where ion con

A case series from the Israeli Phage Therapy Center describes phage PASA16, provided pro bono by Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, given intravenously, locally or topically with antibiotics to 16 patients with non-resolving Pseudomonas aeruginos

Tulane University researchers used inducible CRISPR interference to manipulate 18 E. coli BL21 genes and identify effectors of phage T7 propagation, then modified the bacterial lysate used for cell-free bacteriophage synthesis accordingly.

BBC StoryWorks is releasing a documentary titled "Race Against Resistance: The Life And Death Struggle To Save Antibiotics", which focuses on the global race against antimicrobial resistance. The documentary features patients, doctors, scie

Melissa Su Juan Chee (National University of Singapore) and colleagues have uncovered a new process of gene transfer in Staphylococcus aureus mediated by staphylococcal pathogenicity islands (SaPIs) that can mobilize and transfer two pathog

Susanne Meile, Jiemin Du (ETH Zurich) and colleagues have published a new paper on engineered reporter phages for detection of Escherichia coli, Enterococcus, and Klebsiella in urine.

A preprint by Natalia Quinones-Olvera and colleagues reports that diverse and abundant viruses exploit conjugative plasmids.

Zimbabwean biomedical researcher Rutendo Kahari was featured in Forbes. She aims to use phages to fight tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, with a focus on addressing health equity across Africa.

Le Temps newspaper in Switzerland featured phage therapy for antimicrobial resistance on its front page.

Developing Scientific Guidelines for Phage Banks The next meeting for this project will be held on August 6th at Evergreen State College and will be accessible online. We will continue to brainstorm about the topics that should be covered

US Representative Morgan Griffith recently discussed the potential of phage therapy to combat antimicrobial resistance at the April 28, 2023 U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations meeting.