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.

PHILADELPHIA - As a 19th-century Augustinian friar, Gregor Mendel was expected to pursue his groundbreaking genetics research with the same passion he reserved for his religious studies. Combi… ...

Gregor Johann Mendel was born July 20, 1822 in a region of Austria that’s now part of the Czech Republic. He grew up on the family farm and worked as a gardener. He also studied beekeeping.

Gregor Mendel’s experiments and research lie at the foundation of these findings. From the Science Pages COVID-19: More retractions in journals than preprints ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s hard to think of a scientist whose reputation is more squeaky-clean than the shy Austrian monk Gregor Mendel. His story invariably begins in the abbey garden, where from 1856 to 1863 he ...

Gregor Mendel. There isn't a single scientist today who isn't familiar with the work of Gregor Mendel. But when he passed away in 1884, he was merely known as a "puttering monk with a skill for ...

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 ...

Gregor Mendel is one of the most important figures in science. Taught in school classrooms across the globe, his discoveries in the field of genetics have been unrivaled in their sheer significance ...