Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. human red blood cells under microscope with two white blood cells When a pregnant woman had her blood sampled back in 1972, ...

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 ...

There are numerous critical reasons scientists group blood types the way they do today, but the main reason is to allow for safe blood transfusions. As we all know, hospitals require most patients to ...

(WXYZ) — A new group of blood types has been discovered. That’s according to a study where scientists — for the first time — describe the different antigens ...

A major retrospective study shows that people with blood group A face a higher likelihood of autoimmune liver disease, especially primary biliary cholangitis, while those with blood group B appear ...

Adam Taylor is affiliated with the Anatomical Society. You are probably aware of the two main blood group systems: the AB system and the rhesus system. Under the AB system, there are four main blood ...

A pregnant woman's blood sample taken in 1972 was mysteriously missing a surface molecule found on all other known red blood cells at the time. More than 50 years later, that strange absence finally ...

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 ...

Researchers from the UK and Israel have identified a new blood group system in humans, marking a major breakthrough in hematology. The discovery, published in September, stems from a puzzling case in ...