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 ...

Genetics is fiendishly complex. We know this from decades of molecular biology, from the resulting studies on the sequencing and analysis of genomes and from our increasing knowledge of how genes ...

Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

Just before his 200th birthday, scientists exhumed the remains of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics. Macabre as it sounds, the scientists involved explained in a new NPR interview that celebrating ...

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.

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

The year 2022 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel. He's known as the father of genetics, so scientists exhumed Mendel's body... When the man known as "father of genetics" turns 200 ...