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Dr. Chua Tock Hing was my lecturer for the unit “THE DESIGN OF SCIENCE” back in Monash Malaysia University.  He was kind of funny in his own way and he can remember names of almost every students in the lecture (around 100).

Monash University:

According to Monash University researcher Dr Chua Tock Hing, the particular strain of bacteria was found in the Malaysian state of Pahang and produces a toxin that kills mosquito larvae by destroying their gut tissue.

Toxin was isolated from the strain of Bacillus thurigiensis bacteria.  The isolated toxin only affect mosquito larvae, according to Dr. Chua.  It was a joint research between Monash University’s Sunway campus and the Malaysian government’s Institute of Medical Research.

I would prefer this method to control mosquito population (if it really works and doesn’t cause any other environmental problem) to using chemical pesticides, which is bad to our health as well.

I remembered one sarcastic thing Dr. Chua mentioned during his lectures, which was that he was the first and only person in Monash Malaysia campus who had paper published in Nature.

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