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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Three British doctors report that they have found the first proved case of hemophilia (a tendency to uncontrollable bleeding) in a woman. More remarkable still, the victim bore a child without ...

Jyoti Vakhlu [email protected] From laws of inheritance to the molecule of heredity – a journey of scientific ...