Scientists have discovered the rarest blood type on Earth, belonging to just one woman. Talk about a lonely hearts club. An unidentified woman from Guadeloupe has the rarest blood type on Earth, to ...

The human body is always coming up with new ways to shock and surprise us, and it turns out that just 50 known people in the ...

In 2011, a woman from the French overseas region of Guadeloupe underwent routine tests before a surgery. Strikingly, doctors could not identify her blood group, which was so unique that they did not ...

A routine medical test turned extraordinary for a woman from the Caribbean when doctors found something completely new in her blood. Nearly 15 years ago, while preparing for surgery in Paris, doctors ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking development, French scientists have identified the world’s rarest blood group, known as Gwada-negative. It's a blood group so rare that only one woman in the world is known to have ...

Talk about a lonely hearts club. An unidentified woman from Guadeloupe has the rarest blood type on Earth, to the extent that she’s only compatible with herself. The 68-year-old is thus far the only ...

To say that blood is vital is a huge understatement. It flows through the organs that make up the circulatory system — the heart and blood vessels and veins — delivering oxygen, nutrients, and ...

The donor must be of Pakistani, Indian or Iranian descent. The family of a 2-year-old girl battling an aggressive form of cancer is desperately searching for a rare blood type that will allow her to ...

O- blood is the universal donor type because it can be used for anyone. AB+ blood can receive any type of blood, making it the universal recipient. Blood types need to match, or the immune system will ...

Zainab Mughal, a 2-year-old girl from Miami, needs blood transfusions for her cancer treatment but she has a blood type so rare that so far only four donors worldwide have been identified. In August, ...