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'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman

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Re: 'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman

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kimos wrote: post #34

My clearly incorrect understanding was that there are ~8 blood types. So reading that there are 48 is shocking.

The other thing people should have more awareness of is that plasma and blood have opposite compatibilities; a universal plasma donor will have blood only compatible to their blood type and vice versa.

Which makes the hollywood trope of ‘i’m a universal donor’ really silly. Universal donor of what? And then they pump the blood and plasma straight into the other person pretty much guaranteeing problems since either the blood or plasma will be incompatible. The only reason blood donation works is due to machines that separate the blood and plasma.

Re: 'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman

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Post by greggsy »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #61
kimos wrote: post #34

My clearly incorrect understanding was that there are ~8 blood types. So reading that there are 48 is shocking.

The other thing people should have more awareness of is that plasma and blood have opposite compatibilities; a universal plasma donor will have blood only compatible to their blood type and vice versa. Which makes the hollywood trope of ‘i’m a universal donor’ really silly. Universal donor of what? And then they pump the blood and plasma straight into the other person pretty much guaranteeing problems since either th…

When people are directly piped to each other in movies, I often wonder if there is some negotiation protocol like PD that ensures that the donor continues to charge the recipient, even when their capacities both reach equilibrium.

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Post by jenadine »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #46
jenadine wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There are 'gods' that are 'better' than others I don’t think that’s valid. Gods usually come with a set of values or a specific worldview, and these are inherently subjective. You can’t really rank them as "better" or "worse" in any meaningful way. Let’s take an example: imagine I believe in a paperclip-god. The core value here is producing as many paperclips as possible, and I’d argue that anything that doesn’t se…

I wonder if this was inspired by Universal Paperclips ( https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html )

There is some common inspiration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...

Re: 'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman

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Post by thecrims0nchin »

hinkley wrote: post #55
nick238 wrote: post #36

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There are 48 blood type systems , of which ABO (giving A, B, AB, and O) and Rh (+/-) can be combined to form the 8 common types. There are effectively millions of types because all the systems combined combinatorially, but most antigens beyond ABO and Rh don't cause that much of an issue, so in emergency cases, they just go with them.

Is that what’s going on with organ matching?

Abo is a major part of organ matching. Abo has to be considered for any organ transplant. Every organ differs but HLA antigens is a different, more complex set of antigens that needs to be matched to some degree as well. Abo is usually a simple test, so hla antigen matching is most of what "organ matching" labs spend their time on. I work in this field.

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kartoffelsaft wrote: post #47
newsbinator wrote: post #10

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Younger generations are now heavily into MBTI. And I mean heavily: you won't find a person under 35 or so who doesn't know their MBTI letters.

I am well below that age and I don't know my MBTI letters.

A native English-speaking HNer doesn't know their MBTI letters?

Well if that's not a typical young Korean, then who is?

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