‘Vampires’ May Have Been Real People with Erythropoietic Protoporphyria, Researchers Say0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 8, 2017
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Barry Paw of the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, has identified a genetic mutation that may be responsible for ‘vampire’ folklore. The research appears this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.