Fail your teacher-qualifying oral exams twice, become a monk, breed peas with the disapproval of your superiors and publish a paper met with "deafening silence" for 34 years. Hardly a promising start ...

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 ...

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.

Gregor Johann Mendel, the ‘father of modern genetics’ was born 200 years ago on July 20, 1822. Scientists have advanced in genetics in leaps and bounds because of one individual who pursued in ...