Scientists from the French Blood Establishment (EFS) has successfully identified the ultra-rare 48 th blood type group, known ...

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

The woman is the only known carrier of a new blood type, dubbed "Gwada negative," the French Blood Establishment (EFS) said.

However, groups like MAL and the Er blood system, found in 2022, only impact a small number of people. “The work was difficult because the genetic cases are very rare,” Tilley explained.

Scientists have developed a way of converting one blood group into another. The technique potentially enables blood from groups A, B and AB to be converted into group O negative, which can be safely ...

Now, scientists from the University of Bristol and NHS Blood & Transplant have discovered a rare new blood group system, and in the process solved two 30-year-old cases of hemolytic disease on the ...