A new international study challenges the century‑old dominance of Mendelian genetics, arguing that most traits arise from ...

Artificial intelligence startup Mendel has landed $40 million in a series B funding round led by Oak HC/FT for its real-world data platform. Using AI and natural language processing, the company ...

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, ...

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, the ...

Pity Gregor Mendel. Far enough ahead of his peers that his work wasn’t appreciated in his own lifetime. When the world was finally ready to deal with his results, the scientific community almost ...

1865: Gregor Mendel reads his first paper on genetics to the local scientific organization. It will be decades before Mendel's intellectual seeds take root in the fertile grounds of Darwinism and grow ...

Two hundred years ago in July, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor (the religious name he received upon entering the Augustinian Friars at St. Thomas' Abbey in Austria-Hungary) ...