If this turns out without huge side effects or even with NO side effects whatsoever then this will help millions of people survive! And help genetic researchers so much more to understand how to cure any type of diseases! 🤯

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Researchers Find Way To Turn Type-A Blood Into Type-O Blood

Type O- Blood is the so-called Universal Donor blood type, because it can be given in emergency transfusion situations to people of any blood type, without rejection. Consequently, medical demand for this blood type outstrips its proportion in the general populace.

So, any way to increase this supply can only be a good thing, saving potentially countless lives. It is fortunate, then, that Researchers from the University of British Columbia may have found a way to convert at least one other blood type into the Universal Donor type.

Specifically, the researchers identified a type of gut microbe (i.e. which naturally lives in the human gut) which secretes an enzyme that, when introduced to Type-A blood samples, strips away the specific Type-A markers, leaving behind a substance seemingly indistinguishable to the body from Type O-. This process is also remarkably efficient, because it works on whole blood, rather than requiring any sophisticated chemical processing techniques.

Of course, there will need to be proper human clinical testing before this can become an approved solution, but the Researchers seem fairly confident that human bodies will accept this ‘artificial’ O- Blood just as it would any conventional sample of Universal Donor blood. If their confidence proves justified, it may well solve in a single stroke the issue of Universal Donor blood shortages in modern medicine. It also suggests that future techniques may well be developed for converting other blood types, as well.

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