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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>For the first time, Canadian scientists have changed the blood type in human organs for transplantation. A way to make “universal” organs for transplanting into people with any blood type has been published in the Science Translational Medicine journal.<\/p>\n

The Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories and UHN’s Ajmera Transplant Centre have proven that it’s possible to convert blood types safely in donor organs for transplantation. For example, donors with O blood types are considered universal because there are no agglutinogens (proteins A and B) in their blood, which means it’s suitable for all patients, including those with the rarest blood type \u2013 AB.<\/p>\n

Canadian scientists managed to change the blood type of transplanted organs to O by ridding it of specific antigens using the enzymes N-acetyl-alpha-D-galactose deacetylase (FpGalNAc-deacetylase) and D-galactosamine-galactosaminidase (FpGalactosaminidase). At the beginning of the experiment, they tested this method on aortic tissue, and then successfully destroyed group A proteins in eight lung samples. It took the enzymes about four hours to destroy almost all of the agglutinogens.<\/p>\n

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