Neanderthal blood types may have made them ill-equipped to deal with infectious diseases.

There are ABO antigens, which designate ABO blood types. This is determined by the ABO gene. For example: There are also Rhesus (Rh) antigens, which determine if blood is "positive" or "negative." ...

They also serve to remind us that although we have our 'genetic blueprint' in hand, a large amount of work remains before we fully understand how to best use it. Type II diabetes has reached ...

But 100,000 years ago, this type of red blood cell incompatibility would have been impossible to treat. Mazières and ...

One of these locations was found to be coinciding with the site where the gene for blood type was present. After the researchers closely looked at specific blood type genes, they found that those ...

Norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, is highly infectious among people in confined places – like cruise ships. But not ...