Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry away from using horseshoe crab blood and towards synthetic genetically engineered alternatives. Horseshoe crab blood has ...

Learn more. Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is seeking volunteers for a long-standing community science program that collects data on horseshoe crab populations in the Damariscotta River estuary.

Horseshoe crab blood is highly valuable because it contains a unique substance called Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), which is used in a test to detect bacterial endotoxins. This test, known as ...

The Eli Lilly company says it uses the synthetic material, rather than horseshoe crab blood, in about 80% of their testing. Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry ...

(WJAR) — Massachusetts is looking for volunteers to count spawning horseshoe crabs. The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries is conducting its yearly Horseshoe Crab Spawning Beach Survey ...

Horseshoe crab blood has been used in medical testing for at least the last five decades. But environmental groups worry that bleeding the animals, which can kill some of them, can negatively ...

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The Delaware Bay is home to an estimated 30 million horseshoe crabs, making it the world’s largest breeding ground for this species, and a state agency wants to inform the public more on these ...

A U.S. court has ordered the state of Maryland to release data on horseshoe crab deaths in the state in response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). “This is good news for ...

State wildlife officials will be hosting a public meeting on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) horseshoe crab management plan on Thursday, March 27th. The meeting will be ...

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 ...