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The N.E. Microbiome Institute develops expert-reviewed content on the gut microbiome, digestive health, microbial metabolism, nutrition, immunity, and emerging microbiome science, grounded in peer-reviewed research and multidisciplinary scientific expertise.
Lastest From The Weekly Biome
How Gut Bacteria Help Vitamin A Train the Immune System
The gut microbiome can influence how vitamin A signals reach the immune system. Vitamin A is essential for intestinal immunity, but having the
What the latest science says about your gut
This week in The Weekly Biome, from the N.E. Microbiome Institute
How Gut Bacteria Help Vitamin A Train the Immune System
The gut microbiome can influence how vitamin A signals reach the immune system. Vitamin A is essential for intestinal immunity,
How Bacteria Capture PFAS and Build Forever Chemicals Into Their Membranes
PFAS are called forever chemicals because their fluorinated carbon structures resist many of the chemical reactions that normally break environmental
The Gut Metabolite That May Accelerate Alzheimer’s Biology
The connection between the gut microbiome and Alzheimer’s disease is often discussed in terms of changes in bacterial composition. A
Turning published research into accessible knowledge
Microbiome science advances faster than it reaches the people who need it.
Thousands of microbiome studies are published each year. Most remain within academic journals, written for specialists. Research on gut health takes years to move from publication to general understanding, limited by knowledge gaps, inconsistent methodology, and the difficulty of translating findings into plain language. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2020.
The Weekly Biome
Weekly research updates from the institute, translated into plain language.
Research focus
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Area 01
Fermentation, diet and metabolites
How gut bacteria process what reaches the colon, what those metabolic byproducts do once they are produced, and how diet and introduced strains shift that activity.
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Area 02
Motility and transit
What governs the speed at which material moves through the digestive tract, and how that interacts with microbial activity.
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Area 03
Barrier, immune and neural signaling
How the intestinal lining regulates what crosses into circulation, and how that boundary communicates with the immune and nervous systems.
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AlloBiome
AlloBiome organizes peer-reviewed microbiome research into structured programs, developed by the N.E. Microbiome Institute.
