How common is it? Not that common: about 15% of women are rhesus negative. What does it mean for me? Is my baby at risk? People who are rhesus positive have a substance known as D antigen on the ...

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is calling on people to prioritise blood donation this festive season. 10,000 blood ...

I am a B- and my husband is B+ blood group. Do you think I will be able to give birth to a normal healthy baby? I am worried because a friend who is O- gave birth and the baby died, and the doctor ...

There is a wide-spread belief that adult rhesus macaques are particularly aggressive animals (Vandenbergh, 1966; Southwick, 1967; Lindburg, 1971; Fairbanks et al., 1978; Teas et al., 1982; Thierry, ...

Chinese researchers have cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species which is widely used in medical research because its physiology is similar to humans. They say they could speed up drug testing ...

It is a specific antigen that is present on the surface of the red blood cells of certain people who are Rhesus-positive. Those who do not have the antigens are Rhesus-negative. The presence of ...

We each have a blood group, either A, B, AB or O; that is either positive or negative, depending on whether they have inherited an Rh (Rhesus) factor; where people with a Rh factor are Rh positive ...

Although the rhesus monkey is an excellent model of human growth hormone physiology, no developmental survey of serum concentrations of the growth hormone dependent somatomedin, insulin-like ...