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

They already have grown tobacco seedlings that take up more than 1 percent of their dry weight in strontium. If they can find ways to increase the percentage, they could create super-plants that would ...

Manufacturers saturate this tobacco, which they make from the leaf of the plant, with freon and ammonia gases and then freeze-dry it. This process expands the tobacco, increasing its volume to at ...

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 ...