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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.— The Center for Biological Diversity and 22 partner organizations petitioned NOAA Fisheries today to list the American horseshoe crab as an endangered species under the Endangered ...
Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry away from using horseshoe crab blood and toward ...
A lawsuit filed earlier this year against pharmaceutical giant Charles River Laboratories alleges that the company is contributing to a significant decline in horseshoe crabs (listed as “vulnerable” ...
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Other measures along the South Carolina coast have been put in place to help protect this unique species. Considering that horseshoe crabs spend the majority of their lives in the ocean ...
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is seeking volunteers for a long-standing community science program that collects data on ...
“These companies recognize that synthetics are a far more secure source for medical safety tests than the blood of a dwindling and critically imperiled species.” The Center for Biological Diversity ...
In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Laurel Oldach about the use of horseshoe crab blood in pharmaceutical endotoxin testing, the challenges of ...