It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

Ensuring the safety and quality of pharmaceuticals, such as blood products, vaccines, recombinant proteins, and monoclonal antibodies, is essential. Endotoxins act as a hidden ‘time bomb’ in these ...

The USP Microbiology Expert Committee officially approved the use of recombinant Factor C for endotoxin testing in July 2024.

How TIME and Statista Determined the World's Most Sustainable Companies of 2025 In the fight against climate change, companies are navigating ...

The American Littoral Society educated the public about the world's largest population of spawning horseshoe crabs on the ...

The best places to see them include Slaughter Beach, DuPont Nature Center, Kitts Hummock and Pickering Beach, but horseshoe crabs can be spotted up and down the Delaware beaches for most of the warm ...

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 ...

In an effort to protect the “living fossils,” and the greater ecosystem, environmentalists have long advocated for an end to the practice of taking horseshoe crab blood. The crabs’ eggs are a food ...

Horseshoe crabs, prized by the biomedical industry for their blood, to get new protections in Massachusetts The controversial regulation won final approval from a group of fishing industry ...

Fossils resembling modern horseshoe crabs have been found as found back as far as 200 million years ago and their blue blood (caused by a copper-containing molecule where humans use hemoglobin) is ...