If you need a blood transfusion or transplant, your doctor can use blood typing and crossmatching to learn if your blood is compatible with donor blood or organs. Blood typing reveals what type of ...

Now that everyone who wants to sound sophisticated about health care is talking about “personalized medicine”---even the president!---the open question is, what part of medicine is going to get ...

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, ...

The ABO-Rh system of blood group typing is an immensely successful method that helps medical professionals safely perform blood transfusions throughout the world. Scientists from the French Blood ...

Close up photo of female scientist holding a laboratory pipette and a blood sample tube for covid-19 in laboratory. She is wearing a protective suit, laboratory glasses, surgical mask and surgical ...

Close up photo of female scientist holding a laboratory pipette and a blood sample tube for covid-19 in laboratory. She is wearing a protective suit, laboratory glasses, surgical mask and surgical ...