A new scorecard ranks the top pharmaceutical companies by their transition away from horseshoe crab blood used in drug safety ...

Yet demand for horseshoe crab blood has only climbed through the years as its uses expanded to testing for impurities in medical devices, vaccines and any injectable drugs. More recently ...

Thousands of horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are arriving on Maryland’s shores for their annual spawning, a migration ...

Jay Bolden, senior director of quality at Lilly, said. Lilly began decreasing it’s usage of horseshoe crab blood in 2016. “Recombinant factor C is the testing agent that still detects ...

When our blood mixes with oxygen, it turns red, but horseshoe crab blood turns blue, which is key to its value in the medical field. “The copper has these special coagulating properties ...