Word: rh
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...Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner shows that there are at least three types of human blood, which he labels A, B and O. These distinctions make blood transfusions possible. Landsteiner will also discover the Rh factor...
...landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...
This is Molly Hennessy-Fiske's last column. She would like to congratulate new student life columnists Paul K. Nitze '00 and Pam S. Wasserstien '00, and thank all former interviewees as well as FMF, RH and KHF for a well developed conscience...
Ages ago, when my husband and I wanted to start a family, we had the Rh factor, not infertility problems, to contend with. It was a pretty big deal back then. But we wanted four kids. What to do? Simple. Have one child biologically and adopt three. Who cares whom they look like or what color they are? My kids are now 30, 28, 25 and 22. To me, they're all my flesh and blood. I've never given a second thought to the fact that some are adopted. Ups and downs? Naturally. But I'm their...
...most distinctive members of the European branch of the human tree are the Basques of France and Spain. They show unusual patterns for several genes, including the highest rate of the Rh-negative blood type. Their language is of unknown origin and cannot be placed within any standard classification. And the fact that they live in the region adjoining the famous Lascaux and Altamira caves, which contain vivid paintings from Europe's early hunter- gatherers, leads Cavalli-Sforza to a tantalizing conclusion: "The Basques are extremely likely to be the most direct descendants of the Cro-Magnon people, among...