An enzyme in the blue blood has been key to testing vaccines since the 1980s, raising concerns for the crabs’ population. But ...

The medical use of horseshoe crabs highlights the dilemma between human safety, environmental sustainability, and scientific ...

PORTLAND, Maine -- The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along with being a prized item ...

Aravind Krishnan, a 21-year-old University of Pennsylvania student, is working to find an alternative to horseshoe crab blood, which is used to test for pathogens in vaccines and on medical devices.

ZURICH (Reuters) - Horseshoe crabs' icy-blue blood will remain the drug industry's standard for safety tests after a powerful U.S. group ditched a plan to give equal status to a synthetic substitute ...

Since the 1960s when the bright-blue blood of horseshoe crabs was first discovered as a way to detect bacteria in vaccines and other injectables, millions of the ocean dwellers worldwide have been ...

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 ...

Limulus polyphemus - the Atlantic horseshoe crab, found along the Atlantic coast of the United States and the Southeast Gulf of Mexico. By Breese Greg, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CC 3.0. Limulus ...

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 of ...

Along the Atlantic Coast, one species is supporting ecological and human health — the American horseshoe crab. In Maryland, horseshoe crabs are a common site on the coast and in coastal bays. Harvest ...