For half a century, a tiny quirk on the surface of red blood cells has puzzled doctors and put a small group of patients at ...

Blood testing detects the presence of harmful substances in a patient's blood that could cause severe medical complications during treatment, while taking medication, and pre-and-post surgical ...

How a 50‑year mystery in the blood bank finally cracked The story of the new blood group begins with a pattern that did not make sense: patients who should have been compatible on paper were still ...

Jean Pieters began his life in science in a slaughterhouse. As a graduate student at the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands in the mid-1980s, Pieters was studying the biochemistry of blood ...