Soupy Study: Minestrone Could Be A Secret Weapon Against Malaria
It all started when a London primary school asked children to bring in a plastic tube containing approximately one tablespoon of homemade soup.
Bring in some soup.
The unusual homework assignment at London's Eden Primary School was for a science week project cooked up by parent Jake Baum. He's a professor of cell biology and infectious diseases at Imperial College London, and his lab's job is to find new ways to combat malaria, which kills half a million children each year.
Baum figured he could teach young students about the process of medical research through something both tasty and understandable: the go-to soup recipes their families use when someone gets sick.
"What makes a good medicine versus hocus-pocus?" explains Baum, who regularly preps his own favorite home
