A tobacco plant relative called Nicotiana benthamiana has been genetically modified to produce cocaine in its leaves. Cocaine is produced naturally in the leaves of the Erythroxylum coca plant ...

Tobacco plants are being used to grow human skin proteins for a new way to treat tendon injuries such as tennis elbow. The quick-growing plants have been genetically engineered to produce leaves ...

a team of scientists in the UK has created a synthetic polio vaccine that contains non-infectious virus particles that can be grown quickly and cheaply in a close relative of the tobacco plant.

the tobacco plant might provide a novel way to meet this huge demand. Today, the basic components of vaccines are produced using mammal, bacteria and yeast cell cultures in containers called ...

Genetically engineered tobacco plants can produce human proteins to combat the deadly rabies virus, reveals a study by US and UK researchers. The rabies virus is passed to humans bitten by an ...

Aristos joined Newsweek in 2018 from IBTimes UK and had previously worked at ... a team of Israeli scientists recorded tomato and tobacco plants producing sound frequencies which humans cannot ...

The internet has several sites that explain how to make a tea with tobacco leaves or with cigarette butts. Once the tea is made you add a bit of dish soap and spray on plants to kill all sorts of ...

The thinking was that the tobacco smoke would provide warmth and stimulation. Many people think of plants as nice-looking greens. Essential for clean air, yes, but simple organisms. A step change ...

Somewhere along the northern coast, Bynoe picked up a species of wild tobacco, according to a paper on the history of the plant written in 2008 by UK tobacco genomics professor David Zaitlin ...

While there is little evidence for tobacco being inherently medicinal, its harmfulness was observed even in the 18th century. A lot of our modern medications come from plants, like the cancer ...