The papers driving your field, read for you every night.
Keeping up now means constantly scrolling social feeds on X and LinkedIn or browsing journal websites, and the paper you meant to come back to still slips away. Research Monitor reads every new paper from PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv and OpenAlex each night, weighs it against the question you are working on, and keeps each finding with the sentence it came from. Built by a scientist, for scientists.
Free: one field, a Today page ranked to your question and ten Ask questions a month. No card needed.
Your question
How do immune signals shape the way the colon’s structural cells adapt to the microbiota, region by region?
A paper, as Research Monitor reads it
Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut
Here we generated an integrated resource of the spatial and cellular landscape of the murine intestine in the steady and perturbed states. We identified a region of the middle colon characterized by an immune-driven multicellular spatial adaptation of structural cells to the microbiota.
This sentence leads: of the paper’s findings, it is the one closest to your question.
The field, mapped from its papers.
The gut biology field as it stood on 25 Oct 2026, built from 26,432 papers and shown in the app itself. In your account the map is rebuilt every day.
Every area of gut biology, sized by its papers and coloured by whether it is growing. Click a tile for its papers, people and funding; drag the slider to replay the year. The papers and grants are real; the people on this sample map are invented.
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What a first visit looks like
Sign up, confirm three things, and your space builds on one page while you look around. Each piece says one thing to try, and “Show me around” walks you through them.
Sign up
With Google or an email address.
Three quick checks
Who you are, your papers and lab, and what you’re working on now, filled in from your public record.
Choose a plan
Described in terms of your own space. Free builds at once.
Your space builds
What your plan includes, on one page: your papers and lab, your place on your fields’ maps, your own field, Ask and the brief, each with one thing to try.
Watch the whole first visit (a minute and a half, no sound)
How it works
A single question starts a project. Everything after it can be refined at any time.
Your question
The problem you are working on, in a sentence.
Add, where it helps, the systems and methods that matter, the evidence that would change your mind and what to leave out. It stays private to you.
Your field, assembled
The papers, findings, research areas and people around your question, drawn as a map.
On a paid plan Research Monitor builds a field around your question and maps it. On Free, your project draws on the field you follow.
Read overnight
Every new paper weighed against your question, its findings kept with the sentences they came from.
The closest lead your Today page each morning. On paid plans a daily brief says what changed, and each of its sentences is checked against the papers it cites before it reaches you.
Your journal club and your course
Run from the same map.
Before each session a club receives five nominated papers to vote on. A course receives each week’s readings, overviews that cite them, and a check for newer reviews and retractions.
What a match means
A match measures how close a paper’s findings are to your question and its context. It does not measure how good the study is, and a close match can still be a weak study. The closest matches lead and the rest keep their usual order. When little comes close, the page says so. Every finding links to its source, so the judgement stays yours.
The paper you meant to come back to
A paper you saw on X, in a talk or in a colleague’s email no longer depends on a note to yourself. Add it by DOI, PubMed ID, BibTeX or PDF and it joins your papers, in a collection you name. Send it to a colleague with a note, or let your AI assistant save it for you.
Fields we maintain
Each holds thousands of papers, scored and read as they arrive. On paid plans each comes with a field map, a knowledge base and a reference library, and you can follow several beside the field built for your own question.
- Gut biology and mucosal immunology
- Intraepithelial lymphocytes, tissue-resident T cells, innate lymphoid cells, microbiome–immune crosstalk, barrier function, IBD and celiac disease. Where Research Monitor started.
- Single-cell foundation models
- Foundation models and perturbation prediction: scGPT, Geneformer, GEARS, CPA and their successors.
- Cancer cell therapy
- CAR T, TCR-T, TIL therapy, T cell engagers and CAR NK, including solid tumours.
Your grant, read against every new paper
Upload a grant you or your team wrote. Research Monitor reads it once into a map of its aims, hypotheses and planned experiments, and you check the map. From then on each night’s new papers are read against every aim, and a paper that bears on an aim appears under it.
- Sealed
- The file is read in memory and its text deleted once the map is drafted. The grant’s words are encrypted, and Research Monitor staff cannot open it through the app.
- Only the people you invite
- Invite your co-investigators by address, to the full map or to the callouts for the aims you choose. Anyone you invite can read the grant on any plan.
- A log of every read
- Each read of the map and its callouts, and each change to them, is in the grant’s access log, which you can read. Delete the grant and its map goes at once.
On Pro, up to 2 grants at the academic price and 3 at the industry price, and up to 3 for a Lab’s PI. Anyone you invite can read a grant on any plan. Where your grant goes, and what is kept.
Questions that cross fields
A project can read across several of the fields you follow and gives you one reading list for its question. Projects are private to your account. Linking more than one field needs a paid plan, since Free follows one.
For example, engineered Tregs for IBD, read across gut biology and cancer cell therapy.
Full text only where the licence allows
Full text and figures appear only when a paper’s licence permits reuse. A paper with no recorded licence is treated as restricted.
- Reuse permitted: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC0
- Full text and figures, with the abstract and extracted findings.
- Every other paper, including NC licences
- The abstract, the extracted findings and a link to the source.
Use it from your AI assistant
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor to your account. Your assistant can search the fields you follow, read papers and their findings, and draft a morning summary ranked by your question. It has read-only access unless you allow it to save papers and notes, and its reasoning runs on your own AI plan. The one exception is the stress test, which runs our models on up to ten claims you give it and counts against a monthly allowance of rounds.
Connect your assistant with a free account- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Cursor
On every plan. Free includes 200 tool calls a month; paid plans up to 5,000 a day. What it can read, and how to connect each app.
Who built it
I’m Toufic Mayassi, an immunologist. I did my PhD at the University of Chicago, showing that chronic inflammation permanently reshapes the gut’s γδ T cells in celiac disease (Cell, 2019). As a postdoc at the Broad Institute I mapped how the intestine adapts, region by region, to its microbes and to inflammation (Nature, 2024). I now work on cell therapy, in industry.
Research Monitor began as the tool I wanted. My work crosses mucosal immunology, spatial and single-cell methods, foundation models and cell therapy, and keeping up with all four meant hours each week on X, LinkedIn and journal pages, and a growing list of papers I meant to read and never filed. It now maintains three fields: gut biology and mucosal immunology, single-cell foundation models, and cancer cell therapy.
Plans
Compare plans in full or, if you are buying for an institution or company, contact us.
| Free | $0 | One field, a Today page ranked to your question and ten Ask questions a month. Your AI assistant sees the first findings for each question. |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | $24a month, or $240 a year | For academic and non-profit researchers. Three fields and one built for your question, field maps, the daily brief and briefing emails, a journal club and your courses. |
| Pro | $49 or $79a month: $49 academic, $79 industry | For academics who follow more than one question ($49: three fields built for your questions, two grants, 80 Ask questions a month) and researchers in industry ($79: five, three grants, 120 Ask questions). Every field we maintain, more journal clubs, and whole-paper reads of your own field. |
| Lab | $249a month for 5 seats | For a PI and their group, on one invoice. Every member gets every field we maintain and 100 Ask questions a month, and the lab shares 4,000 papers a month of whole-paper reads. |
Spend the week on the papers, not on finding them.
Describe your question in a sentence. Research Monitor assembles the field around it and reads every new paper against it, each night.