EXPERIMENTS WITH BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. MORE THAN 250 UNIQUE RBC ANTIGENS HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED TO DATE AND AROUND 30 BLOOD GROUP ANTIGENS HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED WHICH MOST OF THEM DISCOVERED IN THE COURSE OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION. NORMAL, HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS POSSESS ABO ANTIBODIES TO THE ABO ANTIGEN ABSENT FROM THEIR RBCS...