A French woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been identified as the only known carrier of a new blood type, dubbed "Gwada negative," France's blood supply agency has announced. The first ...
There’s more history in your blood types than you think, and it didn’t begin with humans. Here’s what we know about them, ...
A team of scientists from Canada and Spain recently evaluated the durability of antigen-specific immune responses in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) recovered individuals. They have also ...
More than 100 years ago, Dr. Karl Landsteiner discovered that not all red blood cells are alike. He found that, when different people's blood was mixed, it would often clump up and curdle, destroying ...
After half a century of puzzling over a handful of unexplained transfusion reactions, researchers have finally traced the problem to something hiding in plain sight: an entirely new blood group system ...
Most people know about blood group ABO, with its positives and negatives, but they aren’t the only types. Now, scientists from the University of Bristol and NHS Blood & Transplant have discovered a ...
A blood group is defined as the entire blood group system that is made up of red blood cell (RBC) antigens. Taken together, the specificity of RBC antigens is controlled by a series of either allelic ...