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Contrafect, a company developing ‘direct lytic agents’ (which include lysins and amurin peptides), has submitted an IND application for preliminary approval of a new IV antibacterial agent for treatment of hospital-acquired and ventilator-a

Benjamin Adler and colleagues have developed a broad-spectrum phage functional genomics platform using programmable RNA-binding protein dRfxCas13d, uncovering hidden infection strategies and predicting over 90 essential genes in phage genom

Jingxian Yang and colleagues have discovered that agr (quorum sensing) induction reduces expression of tarM (which encodes a glycosyltransferase responsible for modification of the major S. aureus phage receptor). This allows lytic phage St

Phables, a new computational method developed by Vijini Mallawaarachchi and colleagues, resolves phage genomes from fragmented viral metagenome assemblies, enabling the recovery of over 49% more high-quality phage genomes compared to existi

Researchers led from the Ocean University of China characterised Halomonas phage vB_HmeY_H4907, isolated from surface sediment of the Mariana Trench at a depth of 8,900 m. The authors describe it as the deepest isolated siphovirus from the

University of California, Berkeley researchers report the first observation of heat-induced electrical potential generation on a virus, studying the pyroelectric properties of the M13 phage. Modifying the pVIII coat protein with different n

PhD position: phage and oncolytic virotherapy at Leiden University in Leiden. Contact Dr. Tingjie Guo, t.guo@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl.

This week, we have an amazing guest article from Matthew Dunne and the Loessner Lab at ETH Zurich about their phage-based diagnostic tool and engineered phage work. Recently, the phage engineering team within the group of Prof. Martin Loess

Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia is hiring a Clinical Operations Coordinator to support the development and implementation of phage therapy clinical trials.

National University of Singapore is hiring a Research Assistant to work on a project involving microbiology work with anaerobes and phages.

Leibniz Institute on Aging, Germany is hiring a postdoc to study phage-microbiome interactions.

University of Lincoln, UK is hiring a postdoc in Food Science and Microbiology to study phage therapy in foodborne pathogens.

Lund University, Sweden, is hiring a PhD student to study the role of phage-carried antibiotic resistance genes during epidemic and endemic cholera outbreaks.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA is hiring a project scientist, a postdoc, and a research associate for its newly funded Phage Foundry program. Read more about the vision here.

Did you know that VoM is heading down under? The Viruses of Microbes (VoM) Conference will take place in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, July 15-19th, 2024. Registration is open now!

Katelyn McNair, the creator of Phanotate, has introduced a new tool called Genotate, designed to identify and predict coding genes in phage genomes. Now in final stages of development, it’s built to take your phage genome annotation and an

Intralytix has announced the launch of a Phase 1/2a clinical trial of its VRELysin™ phage preparation to assess safety and efficacy in healthy and VRE-colonized subjects at UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A new Canadian phage CRO, Qeen Bio is offering a variety of services including phage characterization, cell banking, fermentation, downstream processing, formulation, lab services for phage clinical trials, and regulatory consulting for pha

Erin Attrill (University of Exeter) and colleagues found that slow-growing E. coli cells survive phage T4 in isolation, but fast-growing cells survive when surrounded by their clonal kin cells.

Pedro Leao (University of Texas, Austin) and colleagues have determined that the Asgardarchaeota, a group of archaea related to eukaryotes, played important roles in the evolution of viral protection in eukaryotes.