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Stephanie Lesage, Richard James and Francesca Hodges have spearheaded Phage-UK, which has >45 clinicians interested in phage therapy, who work in 15 different UK Hospital Trusts; with a Phage-UK Clinical Steering Group of 18 members. Their

Viruses Journal is now accepting nominations for their 2022 Early Career Investigator Award. The prize will be awarded to two early-career investigators demonstrating excellence in virology, and will include an invitation to speak at the Vi

Craig MacLean on Twitter: "Quick question: does anybody know of fluorescent dyes that can be used to stain phage? Want to measure ability of phage to adsorb to bacterial cells they cannot infect."

Micreos, a Dutch/Swiss biotech company, has secured its next funding round of €25 million in growth capital for clinical development of its endolysin technology platform, set to replace antibiotics in many areas.

Adi Millman et al. published a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe entitled An expanded arsenal of immune systems that protect bacteria from phages. They report the discovery of 21 defense systems that protect bacteria from phages, based on co

In a new paper in mBio, Eugen Pfeifer and colleagues report that phage-plasmids commonly encode different and multiple types of resistance genes of high clinical importance, often in integrons.

In a new paper in Microbiology Spectrum, Aude Ferran (Université de Toulouse) and colleagues report that the combination of phages and antibiotics can prevent the selection of resistant bacteria.

Brendan J. O’Hara (Tufts University School of Medicine) and colleagues published a paper in PLOS Genetics entitled The Vibrio cholerae Seventh Pandemic Islands act in tandem to defend against a circulating phage.

A kind reminder about the Africa Phage Forum Webinar which will be held online on Oct 26, 2022 2:00 PM in Brussels or 3:00 PM East Africa Time. The talk will cover the long and winding road from phage research, over phage production, to aut

World Phage Week 2022 Webinar Series: The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2022 with a webinar series on October 28 (1-4 PM West African Time) and October 29 (9-11 AM West African Time). The theme will be

Eligo Bioscience announced that the U.S. FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation and Rare Pediatric Disease designation for EB003, their oral drug candidate for the treatment of Shiga-toxin producing bacterial infection.

John M. Eppley (University of the West of England) and colleagues published a new paper in PNAS entitled Marine viral particles reveal an expansive repertoire of phage-parasitizing mobile elements. They found that marine phage satellites ar

Frank Oechslin and colleagues published a paper in PLOS Biology entitled Phage endolysins are adapted to specific hosts and are evolutionarily dynamic. Using CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, the authors found that phage endolysins could adapt to

Fengjuan Tian et al. (IME Research Institute, China) published a new paper in Virus Research entitled Molecular dissection of the first Staphylococcus cohnii temperate phage IME1354_01.

In a new study published in Cell, researchers led by Eran Elinav (Weizmann Institute of Science) show that combination phage therapy can be used to target Klebsiella pneumoniae strains associated with inflammatory bowel disease.

Rima Fanaei Pirlar et al. published a new paper in Pharmaceutics, where they characterized a new phage, CUB19, which shows potent antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity against Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.

I'm very happy to share that our new project entitled "SUPPLY: SUperfast Photonic detection of Phage LYsis" has been granted ~1.3 Millions by the FNS-ANR in the last Lead Agency call. I'm very excited to start this four-year collaboration w

World Phage Week 2022 Webinar Series: The Ibadan Bacteriophage Research Team is celebrating World Phage Week 2022 with a webinar series on October 28 (1-4 PM West African Time) and October 29 (9-11 AM West African Time). The theme will be

Africa Phage Forum Webinar Oct 26, 2022 2:00 PM in Brussels: The famous phage researcher in Brussels Dr. Jean-Paul Pirnay has accepted to celebrate the World Phage Week with African phage researchers and collaborators through an online webi