Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science report engineering a single tobacco plant to produce five tryptophan-derived compounds, including the psychedelics psilocybin and DMT. The work, ...

Scientists have engineered a tobacco relative to produce five psychedelic tryptamines, compounds normally scattered across fungi, plants, and animals, in a single crop. The work, published in Science ...

The subsidiary of Altria Group Inc., the same company behind Philip Morris products, is investing $251 million at its ...

Scientists have uncovered how tobacco plants naturally make nicotine, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers for nearly two centuries. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, could ...

Stroll through ancient churchyards in England, and you’ll likely see yew trees with bright green leaves and stunning ruby red fruits guarding the graves. These coniferous trees are known in European ...

Now, new research published in Nature Communications has solved that mystery, and it’s a development that could actually ...