What do you get the man who discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance and who’s also been dead for 138 years for his 200th birthday? How about a big party and a sequenced genome! Gregor Mendel was born on July…

What do you get the man who discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance and who’s also been dead for 138 years for his 200th birthday? How about a big party and a sequenced genome! Gregor Mendel was born on July…
Each year five Nobel prizes are awarded in physiology/medicine, chemistry, physics, literature, and peace to “those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to society”. Winners of the Nobel prize in medicine or physiology have transformed how…
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