A new study suggests that the long-standing Mendelian view of genetics has some blind spots.

Between 1856 and 1863, an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel performed a series of pioneering experiments by breeding plants. Using garden peas (Pisum sativum), he demonstrated that traits such as seed ...

Whereas most of the cells in a healthy animal’s body get along by following the same set of genetic rules, cancer cells ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable patterns of inheritance in varieties of garden pea. In 1900, the patterns ...

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