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NL Haddock and colleagues published a preprint demonstrating that phage populations in infected bodily fluids mirror the abundance and diversity of bacterial pathogens, suggesting a close relationship between phages and bacteria at sites of

Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes and colleagues published a preprint highlighting the potential of jumbo phages in combating Pseudomonas recently associated with the eyedrop outbreak that led to three deaths this year.

Hi there, I am from a lab in National University of Singapore that is looking to see if anyone has any phage strains that are able to combat/infect MRSA? Thanks! Kind regards, Brian Chan (bielwbc@nus.edu.sg)

Sophie Elizabeth Smith via Twitter: Hey is there anyone else going solo to @vom2023 who might want to spend some time exploring Tbilisi with me the week before or after?

The Africa Phage Forum is organizing a webinar on the tail spike protein diversity of Ackermannviridae phages: From Theory to Practice. Dr. Anders Nørgaard Sørensen, a Post-Doc Researcher at the University of Copenhagen, will be the guest s

BSVoM is hosting a webinar as part of the My Hero and Me webinar series, entitled "From phage components to antimicrobials."

Oluwasegun Daramola of the Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team was interviewed an episode of the Medlab LabCast called Phage Therapy: The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend.

Tune in to Science Friday for an interview with Graham Hatfull about phage therapy: “Are Phages a new page in medicine?”

The Leicester Centre for Phage Research celebrated its grand opening/official launch this week!

Jagdev Singh and colleagues published a clinical trial announcement that will involve a single-arm, open-labelled study investigating the safety and tolerability of intrabronchial and nebulized phage treatment in children with cystic fibros

Denish Piya and colleagues published a preprint on genome-wide CRISPRi knockdown to map essential elements across whole phage-host genome combinations at once. Their results recapitulate the essential genes determined from decades of analys

David Wishart and colleagues have introduced PHASTEST (PHAge Search Tool with Enhanced Sequence Translation) as a faster and more accurate web server for annotating prophage sequences and bacterial genomes. In standardized tests, PHASTEST o

A recent preprint by Michele Mutti and colleagues reveals that phage activity against Staphylococcus aureus is severely impaired in plasma and synovial fluid. Coagulation factors binding to the bacteria form clots that protect them from pha

Copenhagen-based SNIPR Biome, a CARB-X portfolio company, has developed SNIPR001, a cocktail of CRISPR-armed phages designed to target E. coli. A recent release by Robin Berghaus of CARB-X highlights the potential of SNIPR001 to prevent blo

PLOS ONE survey (N = 787, Prolific) of UK public awareness and acceptance of phage therapy found moderate acceptance, a mean likelihood of 4.71 on a 1-7 scale. Priming participants to think about novel medicines and antibiotic resistance ra

Phages for Global Health is currently hosting a workshop in Southeast Asia in collaboration with the UST BEATS Research Group (run by Donna May Papa) in the Philippines. Phage scientists from the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka,

Introducing PhageCast, a new podcast that brings you news and interviews covering the exciting world of phages. Hosted by a group of PhD students (David, Maria and Alexandre) from the Azeredo Lab (read about their story, published last week

Congratulations to Evelien Adriaenssens, who has passed her tenure review and become a permanent group leader at The Quadram Institute! Evelien has supported/driven so many phage community efforts over the years. She’s taught us all about h

“Resistant bacteria do a lot of taking…” The Center for Disease Control published Diane Shader Smith’s story of her daughter Mallory’s battle against a superbug, how phage therapy could have saved her life, and why more people need to share

Phables is a new method to resolve phage genomes from fragmented viral metagenomic assemblies. This article by Vijini Mallawaarachchi and colleagues shows how Phables identifies phage-like components, models each component, and identifies g