Scientists have discovered the rarest blood type on Earth, belonging to just one woman. Talk about a lonely hearts club. An unidentified woman from Guadeloupe has the rarest blood type on Earth, to ...

Ahmedabad: It was during an emergency surgery at a private hospital in Kalol, Gandhinagar, that the patient was found to have ...

The human body is always coming up with new ways to shock and surprise us, and it turns out that just 50 known people in the ...

To say that blood is vital is a huge understatement. It flows through the organs that make up the circulatory system — the heart and blood vessels and veins — delivering oxygen, nutrients, and ...

For decades, most of us thought blood types were simple: A, B, AB, or O—each with a positive or negative Rh factor. But that’s just the surface. Scientists now recognize 48 distinct blood type groups, ...

A new study reveals an especially rare blood type that was not known until today – and only three people in the world have it. The discovery, which was made almost by accident, took place as part of a ...

A routine medical test turned extraordinary for a woman from the Caribbean when doctors found something completely new in her blood. Nearly 15 years ago, while preparing for surgery in Paris, doctors ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. In a routine blood test that turned extraordinary, French scientists have ...

In a routine blood test that turned extraordinary, French scientists have identified the world’s newest and rarest blood group. The sole known carrier is a woman from Guadeloupe whose blood is so ...

This reality points towards a futuristic solution: lab-grown blood cells. Scientists are already working on growing red blood cells from stem cells that could be genetically modified to match ...

Zainab Mughal, a 2-year-old girl from Miami, needs blood transfusions for her cancer treatment but she has a blood type so rare that so far only four donors worldwide have been identified. In August, ...