PHILADELPHIA - As a 19th-century Augustinian friar, Gregor Mendel was expected to pursue his groundbreaking genetics research with the same passion he reserved for his religious studies.

This new study also suggested that Mendel may have simplified his data to be presentable for a skeptical audience. He may have done this himself, or with an assistant, to make his model easier for the ...

How did Mendel arrive at his discoveries? The paper is a model for research communication. It describes, in accessible language, how Mendel established controls and protected the integrity of his ...

He's kind of a role model ... who stood at the beginning of everything we do." Mendel was ahead of his time in the way he used math to study patterns of inheritance in pea plants when looking at ...

One of the great ‘what if’ questions that has fascinated historians of biology is how differently Darwinian evolution would have been received had Darwin known of the work of Gregor Mendel ...

While Mendel’s work is central to modern genetics, and his use of experimental methods and observation is a model for science, it also set off the dark side with which genetics has been ...

"Mendel was not just interested in the pea because it was a perfect model organism, although it was," said Dr. Chayut. "It was also an important crop that he wanted to improve by solving problems ...

PHILADELPHIA — As a 19th-century Augustinian friar, Gregor Mendel was expected to pursue his groundbreaking genetics research with the same passion he reserved for his religious studies.