Universal Blood To Become Available

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have come up with universal blood. The team has discovered two enzymes that cut the A and B sugars off of red cells. Massachusetts-based ZymeQuest has licensed those enzymes and developed a machine to treat eight units of blood within 90 minutes.

Team leader Henrik Clausen claims that other researchers have failed in their efforts thusfar because they have been using blood from non-humans. Expect the universal blood to be on the market in Europe in 2011 and in the United States a few years later.

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