Believe it or not, horseshoe crabs help ensure the safety of pharmaceuticals and save human lives. There is a chemical, Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL), derived from horseshoe crab blood that ...

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 ...

The U.S. Pharmacopeia has approved synthetic alternatives to horseshoe crab blood for bacterial endotoxin testing, a regulatory shift that could reduce the pharmaceutical industry’s reliance on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body ...

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 ...

The waters off the southern tip of New Jersey are the horseshoe crab capital of the world. The creepy looking critters have been around about 450 million years and are in high demand from ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - If you've received a vaccination, hip replacement or chemotherapy without suffering toxic shock, chances are you've benefited from a vast bloodletting of horseshoe crabs. Every year ...

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 ...

NAPLES, Florida (WBBH) — Horseshoe crabs have been around for millions of years, but did you know they also save human lives? “Their blood contains a factor which is highly, highly sensitive to ...

A recent guidance update from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on pyrogen and endotoxins testing represents a ...