Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of genetics, poses for a photograph circa 1860. Between 1856-1863, Mendel bred almost ...

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 ...

Biologists arguing about whether the results of experiments by the man hailed as the father of modern genetics are "too good to be true" have been distracted from a more important debate. In a new ...

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 science of genetics began not with microscopes or DNA sequencing, but in a quiet monastery garden. In the mid-19th century, Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar living in what is now the Czech ...

"Retelling Great Figures" covers not only the person themselves, but also the anecdotes surrounding them, their evaluation by later generations, and even discrepancies in historical records, so it ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin wrote in __On the Origin of Species__ that "the laws governing inheritance are quite unknown." Unknown to him maybe, but three years earlier, an obscure Augustinian friar was ...

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, ...

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 ...