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 ...

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 ...

Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called ...

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

Last month, a monoclonal antibody produced in the leaves of tobacco plants entered phase I clinical trials in the United Kingdom. The antibody, known as P2G12, recognizes an HIV surface protein and is ...

The researchers from US Department of Agriculture and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced genetic constructs that tweaked a process called photorespiration in tobacco plants.

Thereafter, the plant was christened Nicotiana tabacum, and ever since, the parts of the tobacco plant have been used in all manners by people across the globe. Humans have always been seekers of ...

53, No. 8, Nov., 1926 A Cytological Study of the Leaves and Gr... A Cytological Study of the Leaves and Growing Points of Healthy and Mosaic Diseased Tobacco Plants This is the metadata section. Skip ...

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 ...