Monday, April 2, 2007
Converting Blood
Scientists have developed a way of converting one blood group into another.
The technique potentially enables blood from groups A, B and AB to be converted into group O, which can be safely transplanted into any patient.
This won’t solve the blood shortages–there simply aren’t enough people donating blood. (And I can’t donate anymore, since doing so pushes me over the line into anemia.) But it may help those of us who are universal donors rather than universal recipients.
