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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.
    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.
  • Most of the bees in a hive are sterile females, called workers. They forage for resources and care for the next generation of bees inside the hive.
    Beehives contain multitudes
    Kayte Young
    Microbiologist Irene Garcia Newton shares her knowledge about the many organisms involved in keeping a colony of honeybees healthy.
  • Most of the bees in a hive are sterile females, called workers. They forage for resources and care for the next generation of bees inside the hive.
    Who lives in a beehive?
    Kayte Young
    Microbiologist Irene Garcia Newton shares her knowledge about the many organisms involved in keeping a colony of honeybees healthy.
  • C-section babies are covered by bacteria as soon as they emerge, but not the same type as babies born vaginally. (Wikimedia Commons)
    Babies and Bacteria
    Walker Rhea
    Fetuses have some bacteria while still in the womb, but during birth they're coated with microbes as they travel down the birth canal, including bacteria that help newborns digest their first meal.