1865: Gregor Mendel reads his first paper on genetics to the local scientific organization. It will be decades before Mendel's intellectual seeds take root in the fertile grounds of Darwinism and grow ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules ...

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.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

Pity Gregor Mendel. Far enough ahead of his peers that his work wasn’t appreciated in his own lifetime. When the world was finally ready to deal with his results, the scientific community almost ...

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-Hungary) ...

Situated on the foundations of the 19th-century greenhouse where Austrian monk Gregor Mendel conducted history-changing genetic experiments with peas, a new glass structure will host lectures, ...

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) [Public domain]. Who is your favourite scientist? In this video, Professor Yvonne Barnett, Nottingham Trent University Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of College, Science, talks ...

A new study suggests that the long-standing Mendelian view of genetics has some blind spots.

Gregor Mendel, the man credited with founding the science of genetics, has had his 189th birthday celebrated in the latest Google Doodle. The illustration replacing Google's traditional logo on the ...