IT has long been suspected that the problem of the transmission from parent to offspring of somato-genic modifications (“acquired characters”) might be solved more readily by physiological experiments ...

[AT the request of the Editor of NATURE, and of Dr. Kammerer, I have translated this letter from the original German into English. Dr. Kammerer has also sent me the typewritten script of a reply to Mr ...

Can 100-Year-Old Research Lead to the Discovery of Novel Mechanisms of Inheritance? International Team to Reevaluate and Recreate Experiments from Vienna’s Legendary Biologische Versuchsanstalt, Led ...

In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...