I grew up pretty much surrounded by plastic. I played with it, ate on it, sat on it, walked on it in the hallways. It covered a lot of the home I grew up in. My exposure came from plastic toys, plastic plates and cups, plastic-covered kitchen chairs, and plastic-lined...

During the telegraph era, humans started to formulate abbreviations to communicate. Today, abbreviated texting lingo abounds. It is referred to as SMS language or textspeak. I am admittedly slow with cultural change, but I do know how to interpret l8r, lol, omw, ttyl,...

Thus far, we have learned that a healthy intestinal barrier is that way because there are a lot of players concertedly making it happen. The community of trillions of microbes living in the gut, the motility of the gastrointestinal tract, a mucous layer, tightly...