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...

The wall, or lining of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the largest surface of the human body that is exposed to the external environment. Previously, it was thought that the surface of the GI tract was as big as a tennis court, but now scientists are countering...