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Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions
URL: http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/readmore.html

Description:
Background about the ABO blood grouping system, discovered in 1901 by Karl Landsteiner (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1930). Find information about blood components, the differences in blood groups caused by antigens and antibodies, the ABO blood grouping system, the Rh factor blood grouping system, what happens when blood clumps or agglutinates, and who can receive blood from whom in a transfusion. Also includes a blood typing game. From the Nobel Foundation.

LII Topics: Blood, The Human Body

Publisher:
Nobel Foundation

LII Database Information:
Record 27286 created by Maria Brandt on 11/24/2008
Last modification on 04/30/2009
Published: 07/29/2009  
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27286

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