What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

On this day 200 years ago, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor (the religious name he received upon entering St. Thomas's Abbey in Austria-Hungary as an Augustinian Friar) and ...

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.

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time, it was ...

Academic exclusivity in the field of science has been the bane of common people who love this noble discipline but find contributing to it substantially difficult. Those not ‘formally trained’ have ...

Gregor Mendel features in today's Google doodle. Here are ten facts about him: 1) Gregor Mendel was born into a German family in the Austrian Empire which is now known as Czech Republic. He was ...

When the man known as "father of genetics" turns 200, how do you celebrate? By digging up his body and sequencing his DNA, of course. That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this ...