Like many great artists, the work of Gregor Mendel was not appreciated ... In the years following the publication of his work, Mendel continued his interest in science: he attempted cross-breeding ...

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 ... for his ideas until decades after his death. His name was Gregor Mendel — and he loved breeding pea plants. "People that are in ...

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 ...

Mendel's pea plant study, rediscovered in 1900, laid the foundation for genetics, with new insights revealed in 2025.

So how did the Augustinian friar, teacher and citizen scientist Gregor Mendel manage to describe principles of inheritance that still stand today — from work he performed alone in his monastery ...

Just before his 200th birthday, scientists exhumed the remains of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics. Macabre as it sounds, the scientists involved explained in a new NPR interview that ...

T he 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 ...

A very important insight that underlies the science of genetics, namely that traits can be inherited by offspring from the parents, was first experimentally established by Gregor Mendel ...