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Swine are an invaluable large animal model in both basic and translational research studies. Blood typing in swine is important to avoid complications associated with incompatibility, but there is ...

Traditionally, blood typing requires forward typing, in which antibodies found in type A and type B blood are added to a blood sample to test for reactivity, followed by reverse typing, in which serum ...

In the United States, 11 people die every day while waiting for a kidney transplant. An estimated 90,000 people are waiting ...

Only one in every six million people have the Rh null blood type. Now researchers are trying to grow it in the laboratory in the hope it could save lives.

In a step toward increasing access to donor organs, scientists have converted a blood-type-A kidney to blood type O and then transplanted it into a brain-dead person. The kidney, which had essentially ...