Our bodies are home to approximately 100 trillion bacteria living inside us and on us—a vast community known as the microbiome. A new exhibition, "The Secret World Inside You" explores the rapidly evolving science that is revealing the complexities of the human microbiome and reshaping our ideas about human health, offering new perspectives on common health problems including allergies, asthma, and obesity.

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The exhibition is co-curated by Susan Perkins and Rob DeSalle, curators in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology and the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics.

Generous support for The Secret World Inside You and its educational resources has been provided by
the Paul and Irma Milstein Foundation and the Milstein Family.

The Secret World Inside You is proudly supported by
the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of
Johnson & Johnson.

The Secret World Inside You is supported by
the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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