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New phage textbook edition alert! Tristan Ferry, an ID physician in Lyon, announced the release of the second edition of "Bacteriophage Therapy; From Lab to Clinical Practice.". The book, edited by Sanna Sillankorva and Joana Azeredo, cover

NexaBiome (previously FixedPhage) has partnered with JAFRAL to ramp up development (a hundredfold increase!) of their industrial-scale production of immobilized phage. This is part of NexaBiome's strategy to expand deeper into the human hea

Danica Schmidtke (Stanford University) and colleagues published a new preprint on how the prototypic crAssphage demonstrates a phage-plasmid lifestyle, persisting extrachromosomally without integrating into the host’s chromosome.

Fan Yang (University of Texas, Tyler School of Medicine) and colleagues published a new paper on phage therapy for the treatment of M. tuberculosis infections in humanized mice. They saw that mice infected with aerosolized TB then treated w

Ruo Han Wang (City University of Hong Kong) and colleagues published a paper on PhageScope: a new online phage database with comprehensive annotations comprising 873,718 phage sequences. It provides annotations on genome completeness, host

Paul Turner (Yale University) and colleagues have written a new review on gaps in modern phage therapy R&D. It includes some fun exploration of how AI & synbio could ease phage therapy logistics, a walkthrough of how and why new funding & r

This week, Dr. Elisabet More, Principal Scientist at PDB Biotech, shares how phages can be used as diagnostics, and how they use phages to detect M. tuberculosis hidden by the immune system. Although the use of bacteriophages for therapy is

The Persat lab at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland is hiring a postdoc to develop high-throughput human lung organoid models to study AMR in P. aeruginosa, with a focus on phage therapy development and anti-infective drug discovery.

Culmen International LLC in Silver Springs, MD, is seeking a Junior Scientist II – Phage Molecular Biologist and a Junior Scientist I – Phage Immunologist to work on phage-based therapies targeting pathogens relevant to military health, dev

The International Society of Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM) is calling for applications to organize the Viruses of Microbes (VoM) 2026 conference. Interested ISVM members should submit their applications by April 30, 2024, to board@isvm.

Only 4 months remain until the Viruses of Microbes 2024 Meeting takes place (July 15-19, 2024). Phage researchers are encouraged to confirm their participation early to plan for the trip down under!

The International Society of Microbiota will host their 11th Annual Meeting, Targeting Microbiota, on October 17-18 at the Corinthia Palace Malta, to explore the role of microbiota in health and disease, advancements in microbiome medicine,

Cytophage partnered with Dr. Marisa Azad at The Ottawa Hospital to deliver the first phage therapy in Canada for a patient with a severe hardware-associated joint infection. The phage treatment was produced by Cytophage, targeted Staphyloco

Intralytix has received Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification for food manufacturing, becoming the only phage company to attain such recognition.

Pramalkumar Patel (University of Toronto) and colleagues uncovered a novel anti-phage defence mechanism, where the P. aeruginosa prophage protein Tab blocks phage tail assembly, preventing formation of infectious virions.

Ryan Cook (Quadram Institute) and colleagues published a paper on benchmarking viromics using Illumina, Nanopore and PacBio. They constructed a mock phage community and used it to compare effectiveness of different sequencing technologies.

Jose L Figueroa (North Carolina Research Center) and colleagues published a new tool, MetaCerberus, a massively parallel, fast, low memory, scalable annotation tool for gene function inference across the tree of life (including phages!). Th

This week, Prof. Urmi Bajpai shares insights (and recordings!) from a phage therapy clinician webinar series she hosted recently, which featured Gina Suh, Chip Schooley, Jon Iredell, Gopal Nath, and Mzia Kutadeladze. At the end of 2023, the

Indiana University, Bloomington, USA is hiring a postdoc to conduct research in phage-centric microbial evolutionary ecology.

University of Leicester, UK is hiring a Research Technician to optimize phage production processes, focusing on scaling up phage amplification and purification to meet therapeutic demands within the Centre for Phage Research.