Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) in nuclear DNA in plants serves as a ...

The red that normally colors the flower of a tobacco plant may now be put to use to signal "stop" in the presence of deadly land mines. South African scientists along with a Dutch biotech firm have ...

Q: I have been reading about using tobacco tea as an organic pesticide. The internet has several sites that explain how to make a tea with tobacco leaves or with cigarette butts. Once the tea is made ...

A team of ASU researchers is using tobacco plants to create a vaccine that would combat the norovirus, a gastrointestinal virus that affects 90 to 95 percent of people at some point in their lives.

Using newly generated 'optogenetic' tobacco plants, research teams have investigated how plants process external signals. When it comes to survival, plants have a huge disadvantage compared to many ...

Cocaine is a substance with a medical application but also poses significant abuse and addiction hazards. According to a report from NewScientist, biochemists have recreated the cocaine-producing ...

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 ...

Growers looking to exit tobacco now have an attractive alternative. Oct. 15, 2013 -- After tobacco: What? Every year fewer and fewer farmers plant tobacco, according to the U.S. Department of ...

Researchers in Israel have found that tomato and tobacco plants that are dealing with stress factors make a popping sound that can be detected over 3 feet away, a reaction that seems tantamount to a ...

BERLIN, March 29 (Reuters) - Israeli startup BioBetter is repurposing tobacco plants to produce ingredients that promote cell growth in a step that could remove one of the biggest obstacles to ...