Stephen Withers

  • Gut enzymes could hold key to producing universal blood

    Gut enzymes could hold key to producing universal blood

    For blood transfusions to be safe, the donor and patient blood types must match. Now researchers at the University of British Columbia have identified a new, more powerful group of enzymes that can turn any type of blood into the universally usable type O—expanding the pool of potential blood donors and making blood matching safer…