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[terry hallinan]

Wouldn't it be nice if there were another solution for this, say an autologous one

Certainly but autologous takes time and time tends to be crucial with heart disease. Can it be made nearly instantaneous somehow? Perhaps. I have no knowledge of that.

It is no accident Type O was named because Type O is a universal donor - as you probably know - but that is just the beginning of the story.

Way back before time began my father's blood donation was refused but he was asked if he would allow himself to be listed as a possible donor to contact in an emergency for somebody with a rare blood type. On the other hand God help him if he needed a blood transfusion.

As we lived in a very large, sparsely populated desert valley, the blood type may have simply been an AB blood type with Dad likely a Type O like myself. Or it may have been much more complex. All parties passed away long ago so I have no easy way of knowing.

My brother was an Air Force medic who called for a pint or two of blood in Vietnam. A soft Georgia accent [his recounting] asked if that was "black or white blood." It took strategic questioning to find out which was available.

That bit of bigotry is now more or less official with knowledge that there are hidden racial differences but black and white races are totally spurious. The original caucasian race was an early scientific division that had more dark-skinned people than light-skinned people [e.g. South Asians] included based primarily on bone structure. The racists at the FDA and CDC - well, let's drop that.

Thank you for your thoughts.

I think allogeneic will be with us for a very long time both because of scientific limitations and an ugly, nearly universal racism.

Check out these identical twins:

https://tinyurl.com/ycdcrosv

Best, Terry