Joel Werner
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1,849 appearances
34 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2011
last heard Nov 2017
Joel Werner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Three stories from the world of blood stories, a lot more compelling than my own run-in with the needle.
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And up first, someone who puts my one-time half-bag donation to shame.
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Sarah's not your typical donor.
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Rihannan McBean is a senior scientist at the biotech startup Illoom, but before that, she did a PhD with the blood service.
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Sarah, and donors like her, whose blood's used on these testing panels, they have blood that's really well profiled.
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So beyond knowing that, say, she's O positive, they need to know all 36 of Sarah's blood groups.
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This allows them to quickly and easily type patient blood without any strange reactions getting in the way.
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Or at least that's the idea.
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Working out what it was that caused a patient's blood and Sarah's testing panel blood to have this super unusual reaction, it took ages.
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Which means that no one had ever found this blood type before.
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It was unique to Sarah's family.
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So Sarah got a blood type
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Which is kind of neat.
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Twenty years later, another family, this Canadian family, is found to have the same rare blood type as Sarah's family.
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But beyond that, it provided a unique research opportunity.
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Senior scientists at the Blood Service soon realized that.
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Needle in a haystack kind of stuff?
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And did you use the Canadian family sort of as a means of validating the DNA sequence that you isolated as well?
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Was it then possible to go to them and go, Hey, you should have this particular DNA sequence that identifies Sarah as well?
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It sounds like as much detective work as kind of what people might imagine scientific research.
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