Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are increasingly in demand for research and medical uses ...

A tobacco plant now biosynthesises psilocybin, DMT, and other psychedelics via genetic modification. For thousands of years, psychedelic substances have been an integral part of indigenous cultures ...

People in what is now Washington State were smoking Rhus glabra, a plant commonly known as smooth sumac, more than 1,400 years ago. The discovery marks the first-time scientists have identified ...

A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with a colleague from Syngenta Jealott's Hill International Research Centre in the U.K., has developed a way to synthesize cocaine ...

Tombac, a form of tobacco, grows on a farm in Darfur. The plant could one day be used to create cheaper, better anti-malarial drugs. UNAMID - Flickr/Creative Commons Malaria is one of the modern world ...

After all the poor health outcomes caused by tobacco over centuries, it’s about time the plant started doing something good. Scientists in the United Kingdom have developed a technique to infect ...

For the past 80 years, eggs have been a main ingredient in vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, the flu, and others. Typically, modified genetic material from a virus is inserted into an ...

Researchers show beneficial relationship between 'sticky' tobacco plants and helpful insects that consume tobacco pests. Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that "sticky" ...

Israeli start-up BioBetter is repurposing tobacco plants in attempt to overcome the greatest hurdle currently facing the budding cultivated meat industry: scaled production. Cultured, cultivated or ...