The new addition, now the 48th recognized blood type, was discovered by scientists at the French Blood Establishment from a sample drawn around 15 years ago. So far, only one woman, from whom the ...

In a routine blood test that turned extraordinary, French scientists have identified the world’s newest and rarest blood group. The sole known carrier is a woman from Guadeloupe whose blood is so ...

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 ...

A, B, O, AB — plus or negative — but scientists have identified dozens of others. Most recently, a team of French researchers discovered a 48th blood type. A woman from Guadeloupe is the only known ...

Identification of rare blood types, such as the new “Gwana negative” category, could advance medical research and save future patients from potentially life-threatening immune responses in the ...

Step aside A, B, and O—there’s a new player in town. Scientists in France have just reported the discovery of a novel, rare blood type, only recorded in a single person to date.

An unidentified woman from Guadeloupe has the rarest blood type on Earth, to the extent that she's only compatible with herself.

They identified three patients with the rare AnWj-negative blood type who did not have the expected mutation, suggesting that certain blood disorders may sometimes suppress the antigen.

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

Last week the Temple doctors delivered Amelia Hutson of a 7-lb. 3¾-oz. baby girl by induced labor, one week before term. Blood from the umbilical cord and subsequent drops from the baby’s ...

An extremely rare P blood type, rarer than the "Panda Blood" (Rh-negative blood), has been discovered at the central blood station of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest ...