Tag: type-A

By Futurist Thomas Frey

A new frontier in transplant medicine has just cracked one of its most entrenched constraints: blood type compatibility. Scientists have successfully converted a donor kidney’s blood type from A to O before transplantation, dramatically shrinking the barriers that prevent thousands from getting the organs they need. IFLScience

This isn’t incremental progress. It’s a glimpse of a future in which universal organs are the norm, not the exception—and where the mismatch between donor and recipient becomes an artifact of the past.