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…
DNA is one resilient molecule! In addition to having mastered the arts of copying and repairing itself, its structure is very stable. Under ideal conditions, this molecule can survive for close to a million years, and even when exposed to…