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NotDolledUpForYou t1_iydsl4m wrote
Reply to comment by LordLandis in Can someone with an O Rh- blood type really donate blood to every single human being on earth or is there more nuance to it? by Yalkim
Don't forget people with the Golden blood type too! While Bombay is an exception to the ABO typing golden blood is an exception to the Rh typing
NotDolledUpForYou t1_iw6enyy wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in How do medical researchers obtain lab animals with diseases like specific forms of cancer which arise spontaneously? Do they raise thousands of apes and hope some eventually develop the disease? by userbrn1
CAR T-cells don't work on the next generation they actually die out in the body so I don't know what you're on about there
NotDolledUpForYou t1_iw6elet wrote
Reply to comment by Corogue in How do medical researchers obtain lab animals with diseases like specific forms of cancer which arise spontaneously? Do they raise thousands of apes and hope some eventually develop the disease? by userbrn1
Ive done a lot of work on CAR T-cells so in that regard technically yes you can alter the bodies immune system to attack cancer cells, but we do it by taking those white blood cells out the body, altering them and then putting them back, not by changing the bodies genetic makeup itself
NotDolledUpForYou t1_iyeayd7 wrote
Reply to comment by LordLandis in Can someone with an O Rh- blood type really donate blood to every single human being on earth or is there more nuance to it? by Yalkim
Golden blood is the rarest blood type you can have in the world. So rare they estimate that less 50 people have it worldwide. Its also known as Rh-null blood because unlike being Rh negative (such as O- or B-) they have no Rh antigens at all, like not a single one out of the 61 possible antigens at all. This is because of a mutation that essentially leads to the carbon backbone the antigens are formed on not existing on the red cells. This also makes it ideally the absolute best transfusion blood because it will not cause any reactions no matter what the receivers blood type is. However because so few people have it and it is so rare, any blood that is donated of it is saved in a small pool for other people with golden blood, as if they require a transfusion they cannot accept any other blood without risk of a transfusion reaction.