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Carlos Martinez-Soto (Guelph Research and Development Centre, Canada) and colleagues have developed and thoroughly described a new multireceptor phage cocktail against Salmonella enterica to circumvent phage resistance. The cocktail targets

Wei Liu and (Tsinghua University) and colleagues have shown that phage communities contribute to antibiotic resistance genes in sludge plants.

James Bull (University of Idaho) and colleagues published a new paper exploring how best to control phage recombination when mathematically modelling co-infection.

There's been a few studies lately on phages and neutrophils. Do they help each other? Do they get in each other's way? Who can keep track? This week we take a look at three phage-neutrophil papers and what they found. Last week as I was wri

The Hoer Lab at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research in Würzburg, Germany, is hiring a postdoc to investigate RNA phages, focusing on their role in bacterial immunity and regulation.

Join us for the Viruses of Microbes 2024 conference in beautiful Cairns, Australia to hear all about the latest advances in the field and reconnect with friends & colleagues. We are currently building the full scientific program, but there

The Laboratory of Bacteriology Research at the University of Ghent, Belgium, is hiring a postdoc to computationally understand and model the efficiency of the Diversity Generating Retroelements system used by phages to diversify their prote

Baylor College of Medicine researchers Anthony Maresso and Michael Tisza, have won the 2024 STAT Madness competition for their groundbreaking work on using wastewater monitoring as an early-warning system for disease outbreaks, demonstratin

Wilfried Moreira is serving as Guest Editor for a new Special Issue on "Bacteriophage Biology and Phage-Derived Technologies" in the open access journal International Journal of Molecular Sciences, with a submission deadline of August 31, 2

Big news! After years in the making, the European Pharmacopoeia Commission has adopted a new general chapter on ‘phage therapy medicinal products’, providing a framework of requirements for their production and control, in an effort to stan

An anonymous donation to the University of Toronto has led to a grant call of up to 1.5 million Canadian dollars for phage therapy research, with letters of interest due on April 19th. There are options for $200,000 and $50,000 allocations.

For 6 decades, it has been a mystery how ssDNA phages use their ‘maturation’ (Mat) protein (1 of 4 proteins encoded by the phage, known to be involved in plus recognition) to enter the host cell. Jirapat Thongchol (Texas A&M University) and

Maik Wolfram-Schauerte (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology) and colleagues published a preprint revealing that T4 phage RNA is NAD-capped, and alters the NAD-cap epitranscriptome of E. coli during infection through a phage-en

Siva Uppalapati (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues discovered that a Salmonella prophage terminase is redox sensitive — it unexpectedly switches into acting as a tRNAse under oxidative stress, arresting host translat

A human oral Saccharibacteria isolate (TM7x) protected its host Schaalia odontolytica XH001 from lytic phage LC001 during surface-associated growth, with down-regulation of a cell-wall polysaccharide gene cluster that affects phage binding.

Here's the second rendition of our new format: Phage Picks — where we share the papers we keep bookmarked... and keep coming back to. Hi everyone! It's Phage Picks time! This is a new monthly format we're testing out. These are casual reco

The Villa lab at UCSD is hiring two Research Technicians to help understand structural dynamics and macromolecular interactions (including phage-host interactions) at high resolution.

Join us for the Viruses of Microbes 2024 conference in beautiful Cairns, Australia to hear all about the latest advances in the field and reconnect with friends & colleagues. We are currently building the full scientific program, but there

Kevin Perthe at LKC Medicine, NTU, Singapore is hiring a Research Fellow to lead studies evaluating the potency and pharmacokinetics of therapeutic phages in animal models of bacterial infections.

The Alcaine Research Group at Cornell is seeking a technician in food science to help study microbial and enzymatic constituents of dairy, including bacterial cell culture, phage propagation, chemical and physical analysis of dairy products