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 ...

In 2011, a woman from the French overseas region of Guadeloupe underwent routine tests before a surgery. Strikingly, doctors could not identify her blood group, which was so unique that they did not ...

For half a century, a tiny quirk on the surface of red blood cells has puzzled doctors and put a small group of patients at risk during transfusions. That mystery has now been resolved with the ...

In a historical medical breakthrough, a woman from Bengaluru, who, for a medical procedure, had sought blood and was found to be incompatible with all the available ones, has now been discovered to ...