During pregnancy, checking your blood type helps prevent complications from Rh incompatibility, which can affect the health ...

Not everyone on Earth has the same blood type. Researchers are still trying to figure out why there are so many, but these different blood types can have deadly downsides. The surface of our red ...

"Why do we have different blood types?" asks Doug from Norfolk in The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry. This enquiry prompts science sleuths Hannah Fry and Adam Rutherford to discover these ...

and each blood type is created based on the different sets of specific proteins, called antigens, on the surface of red blood cells. There are four main blood types: A, B, AB and O. While there ...

which program our blood cells differently to form the different blood groups. If you have type AB blood, for example, your body is programmed to produce A and B antigens on red blood cells.