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 ...

Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed “decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of ‘founder of genetics.’” So concludes an international team of scientists as the 200th birthday ...

Today, Gregor Mendel and his pea plants are part of the canon of modern science. Every high school biology student learns the story of the monk who cross-bred pea plants in the abbey gardens and ...

Mendel solved the logic of inheritance in his monastery garden with no more technology than Darwin had in his garden at Down House. So why couldn't Darwin have done it too? A Journal of Biology ...

The history of science is full of tales of unappreciated genius. Indeed, the founder of modern genetics was not fully appreciated for his ideas until decades after his death. His name was Gregor ...

Rare Disease Mendelian Disorders are genetic conditions resulting from alterations in a single gene, following Mendel's laws of inheritance. These disorders can affect any system in the body and ...