Rh factor

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In addition, red blood cells may have a protein called Rh factor.

From Los Angeles Times

Alexander Wiener is a figure right out of a med school textbook: The award-winning physician helped discover the Rh factor in blood and advanced the fields of forensic medicine and serology.

From New York Times

In 1937, Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener identified another essential feature of blood, the Rh factor, which explained blood incompatibilities between certain mothers and fetuses—a leading cause of stillbirths at the time.

From The New Yorker

Her mother, Pat, a nurse, was negative for the Rh factor, an antigen in the blood.

From Washington Times

Looking at just the Rh factor, the team found that diabetes risk was the same whether or a not a woman was Rh positive or Rh negative.

From US News