A US-based Malaysian scientist says the country's tropical forests have many medicinal plants that may be a main source of income for Malaysia. According to Robert K Lee, a professor at the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), some of the useful extracts from the plants can be of immense use for treating deadly diseases.
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