“Mendel’s Messiah” is headed to streaming platforms worldwide, bringing gospel music, Jewish storytelling and spiritual ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

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, a year ...

This Special Issue celebrates Mendel’s 200th birthday by focusing on exceptions to the Mendelian ‘laws’. Discovery in science is often driven forward more by exceptions than by rules. In genetics, ...

The early history of genetics has to be re-written in the light of new findings, new research suggests. Scientists in Europe have found out that the traditional history of the 'rediscovery' of Gregor ...

ANOTHER direct challenge has been posed to one of the cornerstones of biology, Mendel’s laws of inheritance. Mendel’s laws underlie almost all of genetics. They state, for example, that it is the ...

Questions about bias and skewed experiments have circulated for more than 100 years regarding Mendel's famous research on pea genes. Gregor Mendel is one of the most important figures in science.