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Recently there was a breakthrough in converting blood A, B, AB to O.

In a report released Sunday, researchers describe the use of newly discovered enzymes to convert blood types A, B, and AB into O, the universal donor type.

—— Reuters - Science & Health - Blood types A, B converted to O

What’s so great about this O blood? Don’t all the blood look alike?

Unfortunately even though all blood looks red, but they’re quite different. There are four blood types, which are A, B, AB and O. Blood type O is a universal donor blood type, which means it can be transfused to any other cell type. However, blood type O can only accept O only.

To see how different blood type works and what is the restriction of blood transfusion, you can read Blood type from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is always my favourite reference source.

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