The insulin plant is a popular indoor medicinal plant known for its health benefits and attractive spiral leaves. Easy to ...
Plants make substances called alkaloids to protect themselves, and humans have long taken advantage of these chemicals, using them in painkillers, treatments for disease and household products such as ...
Plants are quietly borrowing tricks from bacteria, repurposing foreign genes to build complex molecules that look a lot like ...
Sylvia Mitchell (left) is Head of the Medicinal Plant Biotechnology Research Group in the Biotechnology Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI; Mona, Jamaica). She founded this research ...