Tobacco as medicine - needless to say you don't smoke it

The nicotiana tobacco plant

Article Summary

Smokers don’t get excited - science hasn’t found a way to genetically engineer tobacco for smoking to be good for you. What science has done however is to genetically engineer tobacco plants to produce medicines that could assist in the treatment of several autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including diabetes.

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