cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15069736

Bacterial enzyme strips away blood types to create universal donor blood

“Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Lund University, Sweden, have used enzymes produced by a common gut bacteria to remove the A and B antigens from red blood cells, bringing them one step closer to creating universal donor blood.”

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Well in an emergency, once can be the difference between decades of life or near-immediate death, so I’d still call this a massive win…

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Fair enough. I guess I’ll stop being excited about the good news and instead focus on how it could have been better 😉

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They specially mention this in the article. It does work on multiple antigens beyond ABO, they even list that there are over 40 blood types that we know of with 300+ antigens.

Did what you do at a blood bank involve an education or just a name tag, cause they have receptionists and hourly workers at blood banks.

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I believe “Vampire-fluffer” was their official title.

As a side note, I derived silly amounts of joy from this one simple action:

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I don’t feel like they were expecting this to change a lot right now - it’s a stepping stone

bringing them one step closer to creating universal donor blood."

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How many people do receive more than one blood transfusion on average? Seems like something that doesn’t happen often, and maybe this could make it easier for the most common uses of donor blood?

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