{"id":18306,"date":"2018-10-10T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=18306"},"modified":"2018-10-10T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T10:04:08","slug":"universal-blood-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/universal-blood-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal blood Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:;padding-right:;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\r\n                            padding-left: px !important;\r\n                            padding-right: px !important;\r\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\">An Enzyme Found In Gut Bacteria Could Form A Universal Blood Type<\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;\"><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientists from the <strong>University of British Colombia<\/strong> have found an enzyme in the digestive tract that could create a possible<strong> \u201cuniversal\u201d blood type<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Type O blood<\/strong> is considered the <strong>\u201cuniversal\u201d blood<\/strong> type allowing to mix with others for <strong>transfusions<\/strong>. This makes it very high in demand and very hard to source.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the new studies, they have found DNA they could extract from human-gut microbes; therefore, type A and B antigens could be removed from the red blood cells. Which would make it <strong>effective in situations where type O blood is scarce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dr. Stephen Withers<\/strong> from the <strong>University of British Colombia<\/strong> says, \u00ab\u00a0I am <strong>optimistic<\/strong> that we have a very interesting candidate to adjust donated blood to a common type,\u00a0\u00bb He continues, \u00ab\u00a0Of course, it will have to go through lots of <strong>clinical trials<\/strong> to make sure that it doesn&rsquo;t have any<strong> adverse consequences<\/strong>, but it is looking<strong> very promising<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:1200px;max-height:600px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TPn9uONl8zA?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","myguten_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}