Your blood type is determined based on specific antigens present in your blood. You can find out your blood type by asking your doctor for a test, donating blood, or taking an at-home blood test. Your ...

If you need a blood transfusion or transplant, your doctor can use blood typing and crossmatching to learn if your blood is compatible with donor blood or organs. Blood typing reveals what type of ...

Blood banks run blood type tests before blood is sent to hospitals for transfusions. Image: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jake Berenguer/Wikicommons Everyone’s heard of ...

The identification of factors affecting the susceptibility to infectious diseases is essential toward reducing their burden on the human population. The ABO blood type correlates with susceptibility ...

Knowing your blood type is crucial medical information, but unless you've given blood before you might not be sure what yours is. I realized this when I was asked for mine while filling out paperwork ...

On March 11, 2020, researchers in China released a preliminary draft of a study that collected data on the ABO blood types of 2,173 patients with lab-verified cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease ...