Every spring horseshoe crabs come to South Carolina beaches to reproduce. A volunteer initiative with the SCDNR helps ...

A study uncovers that crab immune cells can transform into neural cells, enhancing our understanding of how crustaceans ...

In the early 2000’s, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the State’s Marine Fish Agency allowed an ...

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Horseshoe Crab Management Board has approved a measure that will ...

Catching crabs and harvesting their blood is time-consuming, and the resulting lysate costs $60,000 per gallon. In 2016, a synthetic alternative to crab lysate, recombinant factor C (rFC), was ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Laurel Oldach about the use of horseshoe crab blood in pharmaceutical endotoxin testing, the challenges ...

Horseshoe crab blood is used in medical testing. The Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are among those advocating for a shift to synthetic alternatives. Horseshoe crab blood has been used in medical ...

The efficacy of the test means horseshoe crab blood fetches somewhere in the region of $15,000 per liter, and if you’ve ever had a vaccine, chances are you have horseshoe crabs to thank for its ...

Horseshoe crab blood is highly valuable because it contains a unique substance called Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), which is used in a test to detect bacterial endotoxins. This test, known as ...

Bacteria can be found everywhere—even sometimes in clean rooms. That’s a problem for manufacturers of drugs and medical devices that are injected or implanted. Even if manufacturers can remove ...