June 2025 – PHAGElogist

Could bacteria-eating viruses save your life?

Interesting article in BBC about phage therapy. I found a bacteria-eating virus in my loo - could it save your life? Phage - the friendly virus Phage science may sound…

Intra-phage immunity

Intra-phage immunity: Set a (pro)phage to catch a phage E. coli prophages encode an arsenal of defense systems to protect against temperate phages The classic view of phage biology has long…

Phage-induced protection against bacterial reinfection

6 Jun 20256 Jun 2025

A new article by Xing et al. in PNAS on "Phage-induced protection against lethal bacterial reinfection" Significance In 2021, antimicrobial-resistant bacteria were responsible for 1.14 million deaths and associated with…

DnaJ mediates phage sensing

DnaJ mediates phage sensing by the bacterial NLR-related protein bNACHT25 Abstract Bacteria encode a wide range of antiphage systems and a subset of these proteins are homologous to components of…

Armata Pharmaceuticals announces positive phage therapy trials

1 Jun 20251 Jun 2025

Armata Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Topline Data from the Phase 1b/2a diSArm Study of Intravenously Administered AP-SA02 in Complicated Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: ARMP) ("Armata" or the…