Tidal Vision, a green chemistry company founded by a former Alaska fishing boat captain, has netted $140 million to fund its ...
Yet demand for horseshoe crab blood has only climbed through the years as its uses expanded to testing for impurities in ...
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.
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 lysate (LAL) test. A synthetic, animal-free alternative known ...