Scientists Want to Assimilate Your Blood

Some of us are proud of our blood type. We are type B and type A and type AB. We live in community with like-blooded people, giving our platelets and plasma so that others in our blood communities can live and thrive. But pride in one's blood type is lost on scientists, who have no respect for what makes us unique and would prefer we all be type O negative. From the BBC:

Scientists have developed a way of converting one blood group into another.

The technique potentially enables blood from groups A, B and AB to be converted into group O negative, which can be safely transplanted into any patient.

The method, which makes use of newly discovered enzymes, may help relieve shortages of blood for transfusions.

As if type O negative people weren't already haughty enough, with their universally compatible blood and their cheesy nineties metal band. Now we have scientists telling us that we should all be O negative—that our bloods aren't quite good enough.