“Molecular Scissors” Change Blood Type from B to O for Organ Donations
November 8, 2022 | Terry Sharrer
University of Cambridge researchers “used a normothermic perfusion machine – a device which connects with a human kidney to pass oxygenated blood through the organ to better preserve it for future use – to flush blood infused with an enzyme through the deceased kidney. The enzyme acted like “molecular scissors” to remove the blood type markers that line the blood vessels of the kidney resulting in the organ being converted to the most common O type.” MORE
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