There are a lot of questions as to how blood harvesting affects the American horseshoe crab population, but some researchers are dedicated to the cause of protecting such a significant resource.

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 ...

Horseshoe crab blood has been used in medical testing for at least the last five decades. But environmental groups worry that bleeding the animals, which can kill some of them, can negatively ...

BALTIMORE— A new scorecard ranks the top pharmaceutical companies by their transition away from horseshoe crab blood used in drug safety testing. Horseshoe crab blood is used to detect toxins in a ...

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 ...

Horseshoe crabs are commonly referred to as 'living fossils.' They have existed for more than 200 million years, even ...