The multidisciplinary Nebraska Food for Health Center brings together the University of Nebraska’s strengths in agriculture and medicine. Its research focuses on microbes living in the human gut microbiome. The center helps develop hybrid crops and foods to improve the health and quality of life for those affected by critical diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancers, inflammatory bowel disease.
One question being examined is how antibiotics prescribed for illnesses affect the microbiome of bacteria living in the gastrointestinal tract and how to mitigate negative effects.