Dr. Karl Landsteiner won the Nobel prize in 1930 for developing the ABO blood group system. The ABO system is the best known method of classifying blood types. It’s important to know your blood type ...

If a patient or research study volunteer is having a blood draw at or near a research facility that can perform this type of experiment on site, time delay doesn’t come into play. But for research ...

Your blood is a delicate mixture. Researchers and clinicians often use blood to learn what’s going on inside our bodies, in part because siphoning off a tube of blood is easier and less painful than ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

That seemingly arbitrary letter you rarely think about could be silently influencing your health in surprising ways. Your blood type, determined before birth and unchanged throughout life, extends far ...

Since the start of the pandemic, researchers have tried to figure out what, exactly, makes some people more likely to develop severe COVID-19 while others develop more minor forms of the virus. And, ...