For 350 million years, the horseshoe crab has experienced very minimal evolutionary changes. This means they look almost identical to horseshoe crabs that existed in the Paleozoic Era! As young, these ...

Bacteria can be found everywhere—even sometimes in clean rooms. That’s a problem for manufacturers of drugs and medical devices that are injected or implanted. Even if manufacturers can remove ...

Here are just ten of the most interesting living fossils out there. Limulus polyphemus (Atlantic horseshoe crab). Credit: Flickr/ James St. John. A walk along the shores of Delaware Bay might ...

For nearly 60 years, drug manufacturers have depended on a protein found in horseshoe crab blood cells to detect toxins in injectable drugs, vaccines, and medical equipment. Annually, an average of ...

Perhaps you remember, from those good ol’ days in high school biology, the phrase the teacher requested that you memorize: “Form begets function.” This truism reflects a universal fact that a strong ...

Environmental advocates have launched a full-court press to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a bill that would ban the harvesting of horseshoe crabs in New York. The Horseshoe Crab Protection Act, passed ...

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Today, policy change goes into effect that allows companies to stop using horseshoe crab blood in the safety testing of new products. The United States Pharmacopeia, a quality standards group that ...

As part of the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Falmouth Forum series, biologist Michael Dawson will give a talk titled “The Horseshoe Crab: Ancient Mariner and Modern Medicine,” on Friday ...

Who’d have thought a horseshoe crab could make the difference between life and death? As it turns out, the blue blood from these crabs contains limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), a liquid extract of ...

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