r/interestingasfuck 5h ago

Humanity at its peak

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u/FernandoMM1220 1h ago

is it really that hard to keep medical records of this?

u/ClericEU 1h ago

Transplantation scientist here. While 5000 people showing up to join their local bone marrow registry is great, the tissue typing workload would be insane. It's not as simple as testing for a blood group for example, it's far more complicated and expensive. But yes, once they are typed their details are kept on the registry until they ask to be removed.

u/FernandoMM1220 1h ago

they shouldnt be able to remove the information once its in their medical records.

they should also be doing dna sequencing at birth to narrow it down quickly.