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In a new article in Nature Reviews Microbiology, Héloïse Georjon & Aude Bernheim explore the diverse antiphage defense systems of bacteria, including nucleases, helicases, and proteases.

Jiemin Du, Susanne Meile (ETH Zurich) and colleagues have engineered phages to produce and release antimicrobial effectors, creating a promising alternative to conventional antibiotics for UTIs.

In a new preprint, Rubén Barcia-Cruz (Sorbonne Université) and colleagues describe a new family of satellites called PICMI associated with marine virulent phages.

Check out iPHoP, a new program that combines and evaluates predictions to reliably match phages with their archaea and bacteria hosts.

I am a Ph.D. graduate in Phage Biology and Therapy seeking a postdoctoral position in phage research. My research expertise lies in the pre-clinical assessment of phages with a focus on phage therapy. I have valuable experience from working

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

Hello, I’m working on my bachelor’s thesis and I need specific information about phage and bacterial genetics. Do you know or could you help me find sources, if it is possible for bacteria to acquire and use phage genes for their own benefi

The first NIH-funded phage therapy clinical trial has successfully enrolled the first six patients in Stage 1 for safety and microbiological activity, with no serious adverse events reported, and is now moving into Stage 2a, aiming to enrol

The Ohio State University and IPATH were awarded $175k from the Herbert W. Hoover Foundation to address AMR through phage therapy, with students in OSU’s Science Education Alliance-LAB undergraduate program isolating and characterizing phag

A new preprint by Martin Plymouth, Stephanie Lynch and colleagues investigates the attitudes of Australian infectious diseases physicians towards phage therapy.

Phynteny, a synteny-based annotation tool for phage genes, has been developed by @susiegriggo_ to assign hypothetical phage proteins to a PHROG category based on gene order conservation.

Phage researchers can now access PhageBox, an open-source digital microfluidic extension that integrates temperature and electromagnetic modules, which can be used for phage research, as recently demonstrated by Dreycey Albin (University of

ETH Zurich researchers genetically engineered two virulent phages per uropathogen (E. coli, Enterococcus spp., Klebsiella spp.) to express a nanoluciferase reporter on infection and tested the bioluminescence assay on 206 patient urine samp

Are you a phage enthusiast looking to isolate your own phage? Check out this beginner-friendly guide by Raphael Hans Lwesya for tips and tricks!

The Phage Australia team at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research has been awarded $3.5 million by the NSW Government to address the phage manufacturing bottleneck for phage therapy patients.

NHS Tayside's orthopaedic department has successfully treated a joint infection using phage therapy, the first time phage therapy has been used in the UK to treat a bone/joint infection.

Tejas Dharmaraj (Stanford University School of Medicine) and colleagues describe the use of dynamic light scattering to measure changes in phage physical state, finding that phages tend to decay and form aggregates, and that degree of aggre

Thilo Köhler (Geneva University Hospitals) and colleagues report successful treatment of a 41-year-old patient with a P. aeruginosa infection using aerosolized phage therapy. They followed evolution of phage and bacteria in respiratory samp

Meghan Rose McGillin (Cornell University) has written a post on key insights from ASM Microbe 2023, with a focus on how much phage work was presented. She highlights new developments in phage therapy, including breakthroughs targeting B. ce

Greg German and his team in Toronto have successfully used personalized phage therapy to cure a UTI in a patient, as covered by Canada’s CTV News. This is the first patient in their clinical trial, and constitutes Canada’s first phage thera