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This week, Jessica Sacher shows you how, as a non-coder, she got ChatGPT to help her make a chatbot that knows everything we've published across 220 Capsid & Tail blog posts (almost every week for the last 4.5 years!), how you can play with

A message from Martha Clokie, Editor in Chief of PHAGE Journal: Attendees of the 6th World Congress of Phage Therapy in Paris are welcome to submit papers for a Special Issue in PHAGE Journal. Details to follow!

We are urgently seeking Mycobacterium abscessus phages for patient in Singapore. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strains - By receiving one or more of the patient's strains and testing yo

We are urgently seeking Haemophilus influenzae phages for patient in Switzerland Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strains - By receiving one or more of the patient's strains and testing you

Fixed Phage, a Glasgow based biotech company, has secured £1.5m investment to further scale development and commercialisation of its phage technology in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.

Federico Prokopczuk et al. engineered a superinfective phage (eSI-Pf) based on the Pf4 phage, which is able to infect Pseudomonas aeruginosa. They tested it as a phage therapy tool for the treatment of life-threatening burn wound infections

Talia Backman and colleagues published a new preprint on how a weaponized phage suppresses competitors in historical and modern metapopulations of pathogenic bacteria. The authors discovered a viral cluster shared amongst pathogenic Pseudom

Capsules and their traits affect phage susceptibility and plasmid conjugation efficiency, as per a preprint by Matthieu Haudiquet et al. They show that capsule swaps invert phage susceptibility and affect conjugation efficiency, with implic

Michael Schelling et al. published a new paper in PLOS Biology on how CRISPR-Cas effector specificity and cleavage site determine phage escape outcomes. They find that most pre-existing crRNA mismatches lead to phage escape, regardless of w

iPHoP, from the DOE Joint Genome Institute, is a two-step framework that integrates multiple methods to predict host taxonomy at the genus rank for viruses infecting bacteria and archaea while retaining a low false discovery rate. Applied t

We are urgently seeking Haemophilus influenzae phages for patient in Switzerland Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strains - By receiving one or more of the patient's strains and testing you

We are urgently seeking Mycobacterium abscessus phages for patient in Singapore. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strains - By receiving one or more of the patient's strains and testing yo

Sudhakar Bhandare (University of Nottingham) is seeking a Senior Research Technician to provide technical support to a BBRSC 2022 International Partnership project, plann and oversee day-to-day running of the phage laboratory, and provide t

Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén is on the lookout for a postdoc candidate experienced with knowledge graphs, TypeDB, or Neo4j. Join the PhageCompass team after summer and help us tackle marine ecosystems and phage genomes!

From Timofey Skvortsov via Twitter: Hi all, where are you sequencing your new phage/bacterial isolates in the UK/Ireland these days? I'd appreciate any suggestions or insights!

In celebration of International Women's History Month, this episode of the Phage Files podcast looks back at female phage researchers' contributions to early phage research. The hosts interview Dr. Elizabeth Kutter (Evergreen State College)

In this episode of Breakpoints podcast, Dr. Saima Aslam and Dr. Daria Van Tyne join Dr. Rachel Britt for a discussion on phage therapy! Tune in for a review of their role in therapy, logistical considerations, the future of phage therapy, a

The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy is seeking a Post Doctoral Scholar to assist in coordinating datasets and laboratory activities for both microbial and phage banks. The candidate will perform research projects at the P3 Researc

KIU School of Pharmacy describes PhageTeam Uganda’s work exploring bacteriophages as biocontrol agents for selected bacterial diseases in poultry, aquaculture, clinical settings and plants; over a dozen pharmacy students are involved. news.

This week, we look at some highlights from a white paper that Phage Australia published as a response to the UK Parliament Inquiry on phage therapy. ## Summary of The antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages – UK Parliament Inquiry 2023 R