When someone is badly injured, doctors urgently need two facts: the patient's blood type, so that a transfusion is safe, and ...

In an emergency, knowing your blood type could save your life. While this may sound dramatic, it’s true, especially if you have a rare blood type such as AB-negative. If you’ve never given blood or ...

Human blood already comes in a bewildering variety of types, but researchers have now identified a new one so rare that only three people on the planet are known to carry it. The finding exposes just ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s more history in your blood types than you think, ...

Across life on Earth, blood comes in blue, green, purple, even clear. But why? And what makes your blood different from mine? This is the strange world of blood—what it does, why it varies, and why we ...