Talk about a lonely hearts club. An unnamed woman from Guadeloupe has the rarest blood type on earth, to the extent that ...

The woman was preparing for surgery in a Paris hospital when doctors noticed something strange. Her blood didn’t match any ...

After years of study, scientists have discovered a new blood type in a woman from Guadeloupe. They're now searching for more ...

Now, scientists say the woman is the only known carrier of a new blood type called “Gwada negative.” It’s the only blood type ...

The exact composition of blood varies between people. This difference in structure is what makes a person’s blood type. Most people use the ABO system to group blood types, and rhesus factor ...

Most people are aware of the ABO system and the rhesus system for classifying blood. They're the two most common systems of blood classification, after all. The ABO system describes blood as type “A,” ...

IN NATURE of December 18, Prof. L. Hogben has discussed the question of gene equilibrium in the Rhesus blood-group factor, and draws the conclusion that a mutation-rate from Rhesus-positive to ...

We each have a blood group, either A, B, AB or O; that is either positive or negative, depending on whether they have inherited an Rh (Rhesus) factor; where people with a Rh factor are Rh positive ...

Now, after more than 50 years of searching, scientists from the University of Bristol and NHS Blood and Transplant have uncovered a 47th blood group known as MAL. In 1972, a blood test of a ...

More information: Katie Healy et al, Prevalence of parvovirus B19 viraemia among German blood donations and the relationship to ABO and Rhesus blood group antigens, The Journal of Infectious ...

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