On this day 200 years ago, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor (the religious name he received upon entering St. Thomas's Abbey in Austria-Hungary as an Augustinian Friar) and ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time, it was ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

SEX, IT SEEMS, is everywhere on television these days, even in the pea patch. That`s where WTTW-Ch. 11`s ”Nova,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, finds Gregor Johann Mendel, a 19th-Century Austrian monk, working ...

When the man known as "father of genetics" turns 200, how do you celebrate? By digging up his body and sequencing his DNA, of course. That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this ...