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Matthias Fischer (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research) and colleagues have discovered a stunning structural diversity of giant virus-like particles in forest soil, including giant icosahedral capsids with structural modifications not

Krista Freeman (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues have found that several mycobacteriophages have O-linked glycans, mediated by phage-encoded glycosyltransferases, which can alter antibody binding and recognition.

Designer phages by Eligo Bioscience have been highlighted by the World Economic Forum as a key transformative force for the coming years, coincidentally on World Microbiome Day.

Phage therapy was covered in ‘Grow by Ginkgo’ magazine’s Scale issue; well-researched piece with a great narrative! Good one to share with public audiences, and highlights that the synthetic biology / biomanufacturing community is starting

This week the PhageCast podcast interviewed Rob Lavigne about his phage work, including P. aeruginosa phage dark matter, the Igy peptide, and the significance of RNA sequencing.

BSVoM Symposium, Belgium is hosting a phage research symposum on September 8, 2023 in Liège (Belgium). Topics will cover: fundamental research in phage ecology, fundamental research in phage biology, and present and future applications of p

PhageEurope (Phage EU) is a new coalition of likeminded stakeholders who represent phages in industry, the scientific community and civil society who wants to realize the full potential of phages in Europe. They are holding a webinar 11 Jul

Life Science Network, Denmark interviewed Dr. Michela Gambino about her career from culture and natural heritage conservation to phage microbiology.

BSVoM Symposium, Belgium is hosting a phage research symposum on September 8, 2023 in Liège (Belgium). Topics will cover: fundamental research in phage ecology, fundamental research in phage biology, and present and future applications of p

ISVM General Assembly Meeting is taking place during the Viruses of Microbes conference in Tbilisi, Georgia from 17h30-18h30 on Tuesday, July 4th. This is a great opportunity to get to know the Executive Board, make suggestions and hear wha

The Sullivan lab is hosting the 2023 Viromics Workshop October 11-13, 2023, in-person at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. You can expect deep dives on virus identification, virus taxonomy/classification, databases, ecogenomics pip

The journal 'PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research' has achieved its first impact factor of 2.7. The journal offers immediate deposit to PubMed, a zero-embargo Green Open Access policy, and free 30-day access to share your research wit

PhageLab's CTO, Pablo Cifuentes Palma, was interviewed by the BBC's Jane Chambers on "The Coolest Science in the World" segment of the Unexpected Elements podcast about PhageLab's work with phages (starts at the 29:55 minute mark).

Tom Ireland's new book The Good Virus explores the potential of phages as the future of medicine, including their ability to target tumours with cancer drugs and fight antibiotic-resistant infections.

Mariam Taha (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute) and colleagues have published a study on the efficacy of lytic phages combined with vancomycin against S. aureus biofilm-like aggregates in synovial fluid, offering a promising strategy again

Anisha Thanki (University of Leicester, UK) and colleagues have shown that a phage cocktail delivered in chicken feed significantly reduced Salmonella colonization in experimentally-challenged broiler chickens.

Ming Hu (Qingdao University, China) and colleagues have isolated and characterized two novel, highly pH- and temperature-stable jumbo phages and found they have strong potential to eliminate Klebsiella pneumoniae in sewage water.

David Helekal (University of Warwick, UK) and colleagues have published a new model to estimate AMR fitness cost and benefit. They found that two unrelated Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages resistant to fluoroquinolones shared similar epidemic

Naomi Haddock (Stanford University, USA) and colleagues have developed a pipeline to identify phages and their bacterial hosts in cell-free DNA from plasma samples, enabling identification of bacterial pathogens associated with sepsis.

Nature Communications case report of a 41-year-old man with Kartagener syndrome and a life-threatening chronic multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection who was treated successfully with iterative aerosolized phage treatment