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 ...

Plants that we extract medicines from today, such as yew trees, are becoming endangered. An emerging field is engineering tobacco to have it produce the same medications we typically extract from ...

Northeastern University researchers resurrected an extinct plant gene, turning back the evolutionary clock to pave a path forward for the development and discovery of new drugs.

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.

Plants that we extract medicines from today, such as yew trees, are becoming endangered. An emerging field is engineering tobacco to have it produce the same medications we typically extract from ...