“She is undoubtedly the only known case in the world,” said Thierry Peyrard, a medical biologist at Établissement français du ...

The discovery was officially recognised earlier this month in Milan by the International Society of Blood Transfusion. The ...

A 68-year-old woman from Guadeloupe has been identified as the sole person on Earth known to have a newly discovered blood ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have spent decades studying rhesus macaques on the remote Monkey Island. They're learning how the stress of environmental crises, like hurricanes, impact the monkeys.

Besides the typical ABO and Rhesus blood groups, scientists have identified 36 other blood group systems, each with unique characteristics. In total, ...

The Rhesus (Rh) system is the second most important blood type group because Rh antigens are highly immunogenic. That means they can easily trigger an immune response. This is especially important ...

Most are familiar with the ABO blood type group, and some might know Rh (Rhesus). Recently, however, scientists from the UK’s National Health Service discovered a new type: Mal.

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 ...