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Finding Genius Podcast

Healthcare Innovation: Transforming Blood Types With Maher Abou Hachem

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Can science turn any blood into a universal donor type? Join us in this episode as we explore groundbreaking healthcare innovations with Maher Abou Hachem, a distinguished Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the Technical University of Denmark.

Maher's expertise spans recombinant protein production, purification, biomolecular interactions, stability, and enzymology. From gut microbiome studies to pioneering blood type conversion, his cutting-edge research is reshaping the future of healthcare. Are you ready to find out what makes Maher's work so unique? Hit play to find out!

Dive in now to discover:

  • What the major blood types are, and how they are used in transfusion and transplant applications. 
  • What happens if you give the wrong blood type to a patient. 
  • How researchers can change one blood type to another. 
  • The significance of red blood cells in the human body.

You can learn more about Maher and his investigations here!

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Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9

Transcript

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0:24.6

field, sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets and more. Here come the geniuses.

0:30.0

This is the Finding Genius Podcast.

0:33.0

That is Richard Jacobs.

0:35.0

Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast.

0:41.0

My guest today is Mahir Abu Hashem. We're talking

0:44.4

about the really interesting article I saw at a transform you know type A blood

0:49.2

type B blood into a universal type blood, maybe positive, etc.

0:53.6

I think it would be a really interesting call.

0:55.2

He's a professor at Technical University of Denmark.

0:58.2

He's in the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, so you know we'll get into

1:01.7

it now. So Mahir, thank you for coming.

1:03.4

I'm very delighted to be here telling you about our work.

1:06.4

All right, so just for people that don't know what are the major blood types and in terms of

1:11.0

receiving blood transfusion or giving them which ones can receive and donate to everybody.

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