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Golden Blood (sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk)
21 points by elpg101 on Aug 28, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Confusing title. The article is about blood types.

"Golden blood" is blood which is effectively neither Rh positive nor Rh negative, as its missing some antigens which both Rh- and Rh+ have. It's not such a good thing to have, apparently, since it also comes with structural features which may result in anemia. See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh_blood_group_system#Rhnull_p...


Just a couple of days ago I read a short-short SF story titled "Argent Blood", by Joe L. Hensley.

(Spoiler: in order to kill a coven of vampires - who run a lunatic asylum whose patients won't be missed - the protagonist, and feeding target, poisons his own blood with silver chloride).





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