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  • Funmi Ayeni has been interested in food-as-medicine since she was a child. Now, as a scientist, she has the chance to test her theories about the relationship between diet and disease management.
    Corn as medicine?
    Kayte Young
    Indiana University scholar Funmi Ayeni shares her surprising research on a simple food used in households throughout Nigeria to treat malaria.
  • Funmi Ayeni has been interested in food-as-medicine since she was a child. Now, as a scientist, she has the chance to test her theories about the relationship between diet and disease management.
    Can traditional foods help manage disease?
    Kayte Young
    Indiana University scholar Funmi Ayeni shares her surprising research on a simple food used in households throughout Nigeria to treat malaria.
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    Dinosaur Malaria
    Susan Linville
    There are hundreds of millions of malaria cases worldwide every year. It's caused by a protozoan called Plasmodium and is spread by anopheline mosquitoes. It also might have helped kill of the dinosaurs.