Tucked away in the salty embrace of Half Moon Bay sits Barbara’s Fishtrap, a coastal haven where the Dungeness crab sandwich has achieved almost mythical status among California seafood aficionados.

Tucked away in Wilkes-Barre Township, Flaming Crab Cajun Seafood & Bar is the kind of place that makes you wonder if you’ve accidentally teleported to Louisiana while driving through Pennsylvania.

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 ...

As summer heats up, local volunteers tackled litter at South Amboy Beach, pulling out 140 pounds of debris and rescuing a ...

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

Scientists eventually figured out how to use the amebocyte lysate to test drugs and vaccines, and in 1977, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved horseshoe crab lysate for this use.

Craig: So you can find Laurel’s cover story about horseshoe crab blood on C&EN’s website or in the Oct. 28 print issue of C&EN. We put a link in the show notes, along with the episode credits.

Preserving Asian horseshoe crab populations through targeted conservation strategies Date: January 27, 2025 Source: National University of Singapore Summary: Biologists conduct the first ...

Their eggs, for example, serve as a major food source for shorebirds, some of which have evolved to time their migrations to coincide with peak horseshoe crab spawning activity.

If only one is caught, they release it back into the sea. This practice is the origin of the Vietnamese saying “dính như sam” (meaning "stuck like horseshoe crabs"), referring to their habit of living ...

Horseshoe crab egg density, the number of eggs per square meter on the beach, in Delaware Bay has declined significantly since the 1980s. Back then 40,000 eggs per square meter was the average.