Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this year to celebrate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and friar whose experiments in the mid-1800s laid the groundwork for modern genetics.

The history of science is full of tales of unappreciated genius. Indeed, the founder of modern genetics was not fully appreciated for his ideas until decades after his death. His name was Gregor ...

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In recent years, the field of genetics has undergone a revolution. Advances in computational tools and sequencing technologies that are both powerful and inexpensive have enabled researchers to make ...

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, a group of scientists decided to dig up his body and sequence his DNA. We're almost done with 2022, a year ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

The year 2022 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel. He's known as the father of genetics, so scientists exhumed Mendel's body... When the man known as "father of genetics" turns 200 ...