In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...

One of the great ‘what if’ questions that has fascinated historians of biology is how differently Darwinian evolution would have been received had Darwin known of the work of Gregor Mendel, the ...

It only took 141 years, but researchers report they have finally pinpointed one of the genes that Austrian monk Gregor Mendel manipulated in his pioneering experiments that established the basic laws ...

A long lost manuscript, one of the most important in the history of modern biology, has resurfaced as part of a dispute over its ownership. The manuscript is the account by Gregor Mendel of the ...

Google transformed its homepage this morning to celebrate what would have been the 189 th birthday of scientist and “father of genetics” Gregor Mendel. The pea-themed art celebrates Mendel’s famous ...

Today Gregor Mendel is a towering hero of biology, and yet during his own lifetime his ideas about heredity were greeted with deafening silence. In hindsight, it's easy to blame his obscurity on his ...