It's actually blood from a horseshoe crab ... and regulation of horseshoe crab fisheries, prohibiting the use of horseshoe crabs for bait. Due to these regulations, the horseshoe crab population ...

Yet demand for horseshoe crab blood has only climbed through the years ... Today, it's no longer necessary to use the crabs, says Timothy Cernak, a medicinal chemist at the University of ...

A judge in Maryland today sided with the Center for Biological Diversity in a lawsuit arguing that the Maryland Department of ...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the state's Department of Natural Resources to get records on tens of thousands of ...

What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe ... A synthetic version of their blood has been produced that appears to be on course to eliminate the need to use animals in endotoxin ...

Charles River and three other US companies harvest crabs for their blood, which they use to produce a test that detects the ... allowing them to bleed crabs on Cape Cod. “Massachusetts horseshoe crab ...

Scientists use horseshoe crab blood to make sure medical devices, intravenous drugs, and vaccines — including those for Covid ...

Once the blood stops dripping (when about 30 percent of it has ... Scientists have an obligation to use effective animal-free methods when these exist. The continued use of horseshoe crabs to produce ...

“Fortunately, there are non-animal alternatives that can replace the use of horseshoe crab blood and help protect these amazing animals from further overharvest.” Habitat loss is another dire threat ...

When water temperatures rise to 60 degrees and level off after the last cold snaps of winter, the coastline welcomes ...

Horseshoe crab blood is a vital resource to the medical ... and regulation of horseshoe crab fisheries, prohibiting the use of horseshoe crabs for bait. Due to these regulations, the horseshoe ...