{"id":114,"date":"2007-04-03T06:26:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T06:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-04-03T06:26:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T06:26:06","slug":"on-the-path-to-universal-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/on-the-path-to-universal-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Path to Universal Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be the case that in the event of needing a blood transfusion you could only get specific types of blood.  For certain people that could be a worse thing than others, but it could all be a thing of the past thanks to scientists at the University of Copenhagen led by Henrik Clausen.  The Danish team have developed a way to scrub the antigens (sugars that give blood its &#8220;type&#8221;) from blood cells, effectively transforming it into the universally-accepted type &#8220;O&#8221;.  The process uses two enzymes, one of which is found in the human gut and the other commonly causes opportunistic infection.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/BloodTypes.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n??The A and B antigens, which give blood groups their name, are sugars carried on the surface of red blood cells. Human red blood cells can carry one of these antigens, both, or neither; giving four blood groups: A, B, AB and O, respectively.??<br \/>\nFor more about this amazing discovery, read this &#8220;article&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn11508&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\">http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn11508&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20<\/a> in the &#8220;New Scientist&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/\">http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/<\/a> .  Credit goes to the &#8220;American Red Cross&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.givebloodredcross.org\">http:\/\/www.givebloodredcross.org<\/a> for the blood-type chart used above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be the case that in the event of needing a blood transfusion you could only get specific types of blood. For certain people that could be a worse thing than others, but it could all be a thing of the past thanks to scientists at the University of Copenhagen led by Henrik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[169,364],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-health","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}