So why is it so expensive and who's buying horseshoe crab blood? The blue color comes from copper in the blood. But that's not its most interesting feature. The blood contains a special clotting ...

Blood is often associated with the color red, but in the animal kingdom, it comes in a surprising range of hues. From the ...

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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 ...

More information: Tim Cernak et al, The pharmaceutical industry must embrace synthetic alternatives to horseshoe-crab blood, Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-02893-6 Provided by University ...

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 ...

The pharmaceutical industry has long relied on a test that uses a protein called LAL taken from the blood of American ...

Eli Lilly and Company is shifting away from using horseshoe crabs, specifically their blood that’s used to detect dangerous bacterial toxins, to now using a synthetic alternative. “We test ...