An interdisciplinary team of Rice University researchers has uncovered previously unknown relationships between bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts, offering a new tool for microbiome engineering.

Houston, Texas, United States

Who

Rice University researchers, Lauren Stadler, James Chappell, Jonathan Silberg, Zachary LaTurner, Matthew Dysart, Samuel Schwartz, Elizabeth Zeng

What

When

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:20:00 GMT · 4d 4h ago

Where

Houston, Texas, United States ·

Why

The research provides a scalable way to directly observe interactions between bacteriophages and their hosts, which was previously a long-standing challenge.

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This new synthetic biology platform could accelerate the development of engineered phages for medicine, environmental remediation, and industrial biotechnology. It also enables large-scale studies of viral ecology across diverse microbiomes.

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