Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer ...

Researchers are marveling at what they discovered in a 68-year-old French woman. According to Live Science, the woman from the French region of Guadeloupe is the only known person in the world to have ...

Human blood already comes in a bewildering variety of types, but researchers have now identified a new one so rare that only three people on the planet are known to carry it. The finding exposes just ...

Making a Type-O kidney from a donor of another blood type has long been synthetic medicine's white whale. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...

(via Be Smart) Across life on Earth, blood comes in red, blue, green, purple, even clear. But why? And what makes your blood different from mine? This video will teach you everything you need to know ...

Blood type is usually determined during hospital visits, especially when a transfusion may be needed, such as in surgery or childbirth. [File, Standard] Many of us first learned our blood types during ...

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 ...

It started with a routine blood test before surgery. What doctors discovered next hadn’t been seen in medical history. For decades, most of us thought blood types were simple: A, B, AB, or O—each with ...