July 2022 will see the bicentenary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, often hailed as the ‘father of modern genetics’. To mark the occasion, I retrace Mendel’s origins, revisit his famous study ‘Experiments in plant hybridization’, and reflect on the revolutionary implications of his work and scientific legacy that continues to shape modern biomedicine to this day.

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孟德尔奇迹的神奇与意义

2022 年 7 月将迎来经常被誉为“现代遗传学之父”的格雷戈尔·孟德尔 (Gregor Mendel) 诞辰二百周年。为了纪念这一时刻，我追溯孟德尔的起源，重温他著名的研究“植物杂交实验”，并反思他的工作和科学遗产的革命性影响，这些影响至今仍在塑造现代生物医学。