A study published in Cell Stem Cell reveals that some mutations in blood stem cells might help protect against late-onset ...

Scientists in France have identified a new blood type. This blood type is called 'Gwada negative'. It is found in a 68-year-old woman from Guadeloupe. Her blood reacted to all known donor types.

“She is undoubtedly the only known case in the world,” said Thierry Peyrard, a medical biologist at Établissement français du ...

Free-floating DNA carrying cancerous mutations was detected in blood three years before any other signs of cancer appeared.

The discovery was officially recognised earlier this month in Milan by the International Society of Blood Transfusion. The ...

Talk about a lonely hearts club. An unnamed woman from Guadeloupe has the rarest blood type on earth, to the extent that ...

Blood types are defined by the presence or absence of specific antigens on the surface of red blood cells, with the most ...