Baffled scientists discover 69-year-old woman from Guadeloupe has an entirely new blood type
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/woman-new-blood-type-ex1
Baffled scientists discover 69-year-old woman from Guadeloupe has an entirely new blood type
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/woman-new-blood-type-ex1
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Japan created universal artificial blood that could revolutionize emergency medicine worldwide
Japanese scientists developed artificial blood that works for all blood types and lasts up to two years.
The breakthrough, made at Nara Medical University, uses expired haemoglobin from donor blood, encapsulated in lipid shells to mimic red blood cells.
Unlike traditional blood, it does not require refrigeration, making it ideal for emergencies, disasters, and rural hospitals.
In March, 16 volunteers received transfusions of 100–400 millilitres in the first clinical trials.
The goal is to prove safety and reliability before expanding to large-scale efficacy tests.
If approved, the technology could save millions of lives by solving blood shortage and mismatch crises.
Experts say it may even reach areas current transfusion systems cannot, such as blocked vessels in stroke patients.
Japan hopes to achieve clinical rollout by 2030, potentially changing global health care forever.
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Why in practice blood transfusion only takes place between people with the same blood groups?
Even if it is theoretically possible to transfuse blood from patients with one blood type to patients with another blood type, in such cases some of the blood is inactivated by the recipient's antibodies!
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Who discovered the AB0 blood group system?
This system was discovered in 1900 by the German doctor Karl Landsteiner, who, by mixing the blood of different people, discovered that only certain types of blood could be mixed with a certain transfusion.
For this discovery he received the Nobel Prize in 1930.
He discovered two antigens that are on the surface of red blood cells, and called them A and B.