Maltese researchers unlock space secret to potential cure

A Maltese research group has discovered that human blood in space reverts to its foetal type, potentially leading to breakthroughs for thalassaemia patients, whose haemoglobin is dysfunctional after birth and requires a lifetime of transfusions.Thalassaemic patients have a genetic problem in adult haemoglobin, and if a way to bring their foetal blood back to high...