The tobacco found in products like cigarettes and cigars starts as a plant. People have consumed the leaves of the tobacco plant in various forms for thousands of years. But handling the leaves of ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that ...

Universal Corporation adapts to declining cigarette demand by diversifying into plant-based ingredients. Click here to read ...

Not all plant-based foods are actually ... the Brazilian epidemiologist who coined the term ultra-processed food, even went so far as to suggest placing tobacco-style warnings on the foods.

Scientists have successfully genetically engineered a close relative of the tobacco plant to produce nutrients ... but the ...

The complex biochemistry that sees coca plants make cocaine has been unpicked and replicated in a relative of the tobacco plant. Recreating the process by modifying other plants or microorganisms ...

22nd Century says it used a patent-protected process to control nicotine biosynthesis in the tobacco plant, enabling it to create a pack of cigarettes with about as much nicotine as one Marlboro.

Tobacco is a plant that is processed to make products that people can smoke, chew, sniff, or use as snuff – held inside the lip or cheek. Tobacco use is the number-one cause of preventable ...

If plant based meat must be categorized as processed food ... while a series of blistering ads linked with the former tobacco lobbyist and public relations strategist, Richard Berman ...