Keeping Mendel in mind | Nature

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Johann Gregor Mendel lived in difficult circumstances, with his work neglected during his lifetime, and disregarded under the influence of Trofim Lysenko. Now, as your News story “Museum

suffers spiritual cramps over Mendel's work” (_Nature_ 410, 6; 2001) makes clear, the Mendel museum in Brno, the Mendelianum, is under threat on rather flimsy religious grounds. This is

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