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

This discovery began quietly back in 2011 when doctors detected an unusual antibody in the woman’s blood during routine ...

Wonsan Blood Center, China Dotcom In China, a small P type with a probability of less than 1 in 1 million people has been found, making headlines. This is a lower probability than dinosaur or panda ...

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

A group of French researchers have discovered a new, "ultra rare" blood group in a Guadeloupean woman after years of researching and sequencing her blood, the French Blood Establishment (EFS) said ...

Only about 0.4 percent of members of the Han Chinese ethnic group have Rh-negative blood. The P blood group system examines antigens in the red blood cells known as P, P1 and Pk, with people ...

The P blood group was discovered in 1927, and samples can be categorised into five subtypes, depending on the antigens on the surfaces of its red blood cells.

Currently, there have been only nine documented cases of the p blood type in China. According to available data, the P blood group system comprises five regular phenotypes: p1, p2, p1k, p2k, and p.

IN the past eight years, 132 cases of hydatid disease have been treated in the Auckland Group of Hospitals. Among these patients, two were found to have strong anti-P agglutinins in their sera.

Although this landmark paper officially adds a 47th blood group, there are still many unsolved antigens out there—hopefully they won’t take another 50 years to answer. Darren Orf.