In an elegant and extremely kind editorial appeared in Blood, Dr. John Hess - one of the fathers of modern transfusion medicine - comments on our recent paper on the role of glyceraldheyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase as a relay switch between glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway to counteract the oxidative lesion in stored red blood cells. "The importance of the article by (Julie) Reisz and colleagues is the elegant demonstration of new “-omic” technologies brought to b