By experimenting with pea plant breeding, Gregor Mendel developed three principles of inheritance that described the transmission of genetic traits before anyone knew exactly what genes were ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Gregor Mendel’s seminal 1866 paper on pea plants and the principles of inheritance resurfaced in the scientific community, thanks to a few intrepid botanists who had ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time, it was ...

The father of genetics couldn’t get anyone to listen to him — but he got the last laugh Gregor Mendel was disbelieved when he discovered genetics — until his work was rediscovered after he died ...

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.

On New Year's Eve, 1866, Gregor Mendel wrote to the prominent Swiss botanist Carl Nägeli to tell him about his now classic experiments with Pisum peas. In the margins of the letter, Nägeli scribbled a ...

Just before his 200th birthday, scientists exhumed the remains of Gregor Mendel, the Czech friar credited with being the father of genetics.

CHYBIK + KRISTOF have designed a greenhouse on the site of Gregor Mendel’s experiments that is informed by his laws of inheritence.

Two hundred years ago in July, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor (the religious name he received upon entering the Augustinian Friars at St. Thomas' Abbey in Austria ...

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.

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.

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.