There Are Millions of Blood Types

You’re probably aware that your blood can be A, B, AB or O, but it turns out that blood types can get a lot more complicated than that! *We made a mistake in the credits of this video: The writer of this episode was Alane Lim. Check out Journey to the Microcosmos here: https://www.youtube.com/microcosmos Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Sources: https://www.britannica.com/science/antigen https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2264/ https://www.britannica.com/science/antigen https://askabiologist.asu.edu/receptors-and-cell-surface-markers https://www.genscript.com/cell_marker_antibody.html https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5260 https://www.isbtweb.org/working-parties/rare-donors/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662010/ https://www.austincc.edu/mlt/bb/bb_unit9OtherBloodGroupSystems/bb_unit9otherbloodgrpsSpring2011.pdf https://www.science.org.au/curious/people-medicine/rare-blood-types https://genetics.emory.edu/documents/resources/factsheet43.pdf https://www.isbtweb.org/working-parties/red-cell-immunogenetics-and-blood-group-terminology/ https://curiosity.com/topics/rhnull-the-rarest-blood-type-on-earth-has-been-called-the-golden-blood-curiosity/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2267/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2269/ https://www.pregnancybirthbaby.org.au/rhesus-d-negative-in-pregnancy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320789/ https://www.transfusionguidelines.org/transfusion-handbook/2-basics-of-blood-groups-and-antibodies/2-5-the-rh-system https://mosaicscience.com/story/man-golden-blood/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831834/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2273/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0165134 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128137260000301 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2271/ https://bit.ly/2NIPPSu https://www.science.org.au/curious/people-medicine/rare-blood-types https://www.bbguy.org/education/glossary/glu03/ https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=167&contentid=blood_type_crossmatch https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4260296/ https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/ibgrl/services/international-rare-donor-panel/ https://www.redcrossblood.org/content/dam/redcrossblood/missing-documents/3407_Immuno_32_1_07.pdf https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-most-precious-blood-on-earth/381911/ https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/basics/gene https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1983858/pdf/brmedj02040-0016a.pdf https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Determinaci%C3%B3n_de_grupo_sangu%C3%ADneo_AB%2B_y_B%2B.png#/media/Archivo:Determinaci%C3%B3n_de_grupo_sangu%C3%ADneo_AB+_y_B+.png