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In August 2025, India registered a breakthrough in transfusion medicine with the identification of a new blood group 'CRIB'. Which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. The CRIB blood group was discovered in a 38-year-old woman from Kolar, Karnataka, when she was admitted for cardiac surgery and her blood type could not be matched with existing known groups. 2. The CRIB system stands for Cromer (CR), India (I), and Bangalore (B), as the discovery was made within the Cromer system and categorised under the Indian Rare Antigen system notified in 2022. 3. The CRIB blood group discovery is directly linked with the Rh-null blood phenotype, often referred to as 'golden blood,' and is already widely documented across multiple global databases.