Dr Sunderasan: ‘I never thought I’d be doing what I am doing now – investigating the fine chemicals of the rubber tree to try and save lives.’
The Malaysian Rubber Board’s locally-cloned transgenic rubber trees are now yielding high value chemicals, leading to a promising pharmaceutical discovery.
RUBBER has proven to be a vital material during the Covid-19 pandemic – latex surgical gloves for one have been life-saving for the millions of crisis frontliners around the world, medical and non-medical alike.
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