{"id":211456,"date":"2025-04-15T06:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/researchers-solve-50-year-mystery-following-discovery-of-new-blood-group"},"modified":"2025-04-15T06:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:04:41","slug":"researchers-solve-50-year-mystery-following-discovery-of-new-blood-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/researchers-solve-50-year-mystery-following-discovery-of-new-blood-group","title":{"rendered":"Researchers solve 50 year mystery following discovery of new blood group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-solve-50-year-mystery-following-discovery-of-new-blood-group.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers discovered an entirely new human blood type after solving a 50-year mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1972, doctors were stumped when a pregnant woman\u2019s blood sample was missing a surface molecule that was present on everyone else\u2019s red blood cells at the time. No one could explain it.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward fifty years, and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/science\">scientists<\/a> believe to have sussed it. The discovery led researchers from the UK and Israel to describe a new blood group system in humans, publishing their findings in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers discovered an entirely new human blood type after solving a 50-year mystery. Back in 1972, doctors were stumped when a pregnant woman\u2019s blood sample was missing a surface molecule that was present on everyone else\u2019s red blood cells at the time. No one could explain it. Fast forward fifty years, and scientists believe to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}