Always a relevant XKCD.

xkcd.com/627/

You can apply this process to just about anything.

Looks like fasciation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciation

Those look like Utz cheese balls, fuckin love those things

This “discovery” happened in 2009 as well, and it didn’t change things then. The actual scientific article for this rediscovery also states it doesn’t get work on A antigen, so this is very poorly communicated.

I’m not yucking anyone’s yum here. It would be great to not have to worry about ABO. This isn’t the discovery that does it, though. This isn’t even really a new discovery, and it doesn’t even work as the layperson article describes.

Fuck off with the personal insults.

I’m a certified medical laboratory scientist. Worked blood bank for a few years.

Article states the enzymes currently only work on B antigens. Doesn’t even clear all ABO…

Disagree, strongly. Modern high performance all seasons fucking rip. Michelin Pilot Sport A/S or Continental Extreme Contact are very good tires. They’re not as good as dedicated summer/winter tires but they’re very far from sucking. If you don’t deal with snow (inches of accumulation) then good all seasons are more than adequate.

I have experience in the field. This is good news, but I don’t find it particularly uplifting. The reality is blood bank is much more complicated than the ABO type. If you eliminated all ABO antigens tomorrow blood banking would not be massively impacted. Blood drives would be easier and you’d see fewer calls for O neg donations. I’d expect the impact to mainly ease logistics. I do not think it would have much effect on patients / those needing blood. We do a good job managing O neg levels to ensure those who need it, can get it. This is not a case of me being grouchy, this is a case of organ donation being much more complicated than the first thing you learned about it.

Having worked in the blood bank I just don’t see this as a massive win. Win, sure. Massive? ABO issues are a tiny fraction of what the blood bank deals with. If all blood was O neg blood bankers would still have a busy job. I’d be more excited to see a development in reducing TRALI, creating 30 day platelets or something like that. I just don’t see this as fundamentally changing much in the blood bank. More O is good of course, but blood bank is way more involved than that.

It’s a good development, but only works for first time recipients of blood. This only works on ABO group antigens. There are multiple dozens of others, as soon as you get a transfusion once you’ll have antibodies to non-ABO antigens and have to get crossmatched like anyone else.

Cool development, but I don’t see it changing blood banking or transfusion medicine all that much.