All the past week, my husband has been interviewed by media across the world for his latest scientific accomplishment, improving the efficiency of potentially turning blood types A, B, and AB into the universal donor type, O. This could save billions of lives, though it will be a number of years before it passes safety tests, if it does.
Anyway, proud of him enough to list some of the stories here:
MEDIA COVERAGE SUMMARY: UNIVERSAL BLOOD
UBC media release, issued Aug. 21, 2018: Gut enyzmes could hold key to producing universal blood
AUGUST 21
- BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45244770
- CTV: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/gut-bacteria-could-provide-key-to-making-universal-blood-type-1.4061241
- Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/gut-microbes-could-hold-key-making-universal-blood-180970079/
- UPI: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/08/21/Gut-enzyme-could-help-solve-US-blood-shortages/4671534875378/
- Star Vancouver: https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/08/21/canadian-blood-services-thrilled-by-ubcs-new-technique-for-making-universal-blood.html
- Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/type-o-blood-gut-enzyme
- New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2177432-bacteria-can-be-used-to-turn-type-a-blood-into-universal-type-o/
- WBRC: http://www.wbrc.com/story/38929228/scientists-step-closer-to-making-universal-blood
- WSFA: http://www.wsfa.com/story/38929228/scientists-step-closer-to-making-universal-blood
AUGUST 22
- Fortune: http://fortune.com/2018/08/22/brainstorm-health-daily-08-22-18/CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/blood-type-change-1.4794141
- Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6083949/Scientists-discover-CONVERT-types-B-type-O.html
- CBS: https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/08/22/blood-type-donations-bacteria-enzyme-transform-type-a-type-o/
- Global: https://globalnews.ca/news/4402337/blood-type-change-research/
- Canadian Press, posted in the Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, Castanet
- Postmedia, posted in the Vancouver Sun, The Province, Times Colonist, Ottawa Citizen
- IFL: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-secret-to-a-universal-blood-type-may-rest-with-humble-gut-bacteria/
- Indo-Canadian Voice: http://www.voiceonline.com/gut-enzymes-could-hold-key-to-producing-universal-blood-ubc-study/
AUGUST 23
- Global National at 18:50 mark: https://globalnews.ca/video/4406547/global-national-aug-23-5
AUGUST 24
- Radio Canada: http://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2018/08/24/chercheurs-canadiens-transfusion-sang-type-o-securitaire-universelle-decouverte/
- CBC Quirks & Quarks (11:30 mark)
https://player.fm/series/quirks-and-quarks-segmented-show-from-cbc-radio/making-blood-types-obsolete-researchers-convert-blood-to-universal-donor
also here: https://podcast-a.akamaihd.net/mp3/podcasts/quirksaio-WkJ4nloI-20180824.mp3
- New Zealand Radio: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-edition/audio/stephen-withers-turning-type-a-blood-into-type-o/
