Scientists may have found a way to create universal blood. Here's how it works.
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Scientists think that they’ve found the key to creating universal blood — and it’s in your poop.
At a press conference held by the American Chemical Society earlier this week, a team of chemists lead by Steve Withers from the University of British Columbia announced that they were able to identify an enzyme — found in gut bacteria — that can make universal Type-O blood from other blood types.
What they’ve done is collected samples of this bacteria from human feces, let them cultivate the enzyme in a lab, and then applied the enzyme to Type A blood. Read more...
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Scientists may have found a way to create universal blood. Here's how it works.
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