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

Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide every year, but imagine if it could be used to make medicine. The idea isn’t unheard ...

Victor Boddy wasn’t expecting to reinvent pharmaceutical manufacturing before graduation. But as drug shortages made ...

Up in Canada, students have developed an incredible new way to synthesize drugs on plants — and they're ... that they're calling "Phytogene" turn tobacco cousin Nicotiana benthamiana into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...