A ruddy turnstone eats a horseshoe crab in Delaware Bay, New Jersey. The animals are vital food sources for ruddy turnstones and other migratory birds. Photograph by Doug Wechsler, Minden Pictures ...

Pharmeceutical companies could soon have easier access to synthetic alternatives to horseshoe crab blood, a key ingredient used to test vaccines and medical devices for contamination. The U.S ...

The unusual find has been identified as a horseshoe crab, native to the Atlantic Ocean ... and the lacquered shells sold as ornaments. This could be a discarded decoration. The other possibility ...

Mass Audubon's science coordinator Mark Faherty examines a horseshoe crab in Pleasant Bay, where he has conducted research on them for years. John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images If you ...

That’s where the horseshoe crab comes in, specifically its blood. The blood from the animal is blue. In pharmaceutical labs around the world, that blue blood is extracted from the horseshoe crabs.

Photo by Timothy Fadek / Corbis via Getty Images Humans owe a debt to the strange-looking, ancient horseshoe crab. Its blue blood is used in medicine to ensure that anything that gets injected or ...

Jay Bolden, senior director of quality at Lilly, said. Lilly began decreasing it’s usage of horseshoe crab blood in 2016. “Recombinant factor C is the testing agent that still detects ...

DAVID: THE DETECTION PROCESS IS INCREDIBLY SIMPLE. HORSESHOE CRAB BLOOD AND A SAMPLE OF THE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE INCUBATE IN A TEST TUBE FOR ABOUT AN HOUR. >> WHEN AFTER THAT HOUR IS UP ...