There are a lot of questions as to how blood harvesting affects the American horseshoe crab population, but some researchers are dedicated to the cause of protecting such a significant resource.

More information: Tim Cernak et al, The pharmaceutical industry must embrace synthetic alternatives to horseshoe-crab blood, ...

Horseshoe crabs molt their distinctive shells about 17 times before reaching maturity at age 10. A synthetic version of their blood has been produced that appears to be on course to eliminate the ...

Approval by the USP of non-animal-derived reagents as an acceptable alternative to the (still accepted) test derived from horseshoe crab blood will hopefully mean that fewer crabs will be used in the ...

“It’s impossible to protect vulnerable animals without accurate information.” Biomedical companies harvest horseshoe crabs and drain their blue blood, which is used to detect toxins in drugs and ...

photo by Timothy Fadek This is the fate of hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs each year in the United States at the hands of the biomedical industry. The animals’ blood—bright blue because it ...

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 ...

One thing that makes the horseshoe crab unique is that its blood helps save our lives, he continued. It is said that its blood runs blue, however, its original color is semi-transparent milky white.

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