Yet demand for horseshoe crab blood has only climbed through the ... "The pharmaceutical industry is inviting major risks to ...

What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear alien, but their history as earthlings is pretty impressive. They’ve been around for 450 million years, predating the ...

WILMINGTON, Del.— A coalition of pharmaceutical companies and conservation groups launched the Sustainability Scorecard for Endotoxin Testing to accelerate the adoption of synthetic alternatives to ...

Since the 1970s, the standard method to check for the presence of endotoxins has been the horseshoe crab blood–derived limulus amebocyte ... “As it is now, the entire supply chain for endotoxin ...

The research, which used genetic analyses to identify how different species of horseshoe crab populations have changed over time, also looked into how the different species coped with ...

But the commission also approved a deeply flawed model that will allow increased horseshoe crab harvests — including female horseshoe crabs — in future years. The Center for Biological Diversity ...