In several experiments, the wearable accurately identified the presence of hydrogen peroxide in groups of plants exposed to a ...

While there is little evidence for tobacco being inherently medicinal, its harmfulness was observed even in the 18th century.

The tobacco plant’s origins can now be traced back to Bolivia, in South America. The people native to this land cultivated the plant and used it as part of their cultural traditions. Between ...

A group of Canadian undergrads is using plants to revolutionize medicine. Faced with soaring drug prices and global shortages ...

The team's findings are detailed in the Plant Biotechnology Journal. Scientists successfully demonstrated how the biosensor worked to detect a virus infecting a tobacco plant. When deployed in ...

The researchers tested their patches on live, healthy soybean and tobacco plants and compared them to stressed bacteria-infected plants. They found: For both crops infected with the bacterial pathogen ...

This is where tobacco could make a difference. Much like the recombinant cells we currently use, plants can also be genetically engineered to produce pharmaceuticals. Plants, however, only need ...

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 ...