A coalition of conservation groups are trying to pressure pharmaceutical companies worldwide to stop using horseshoe crab ...

It's actually blood from a horseshoe crab ... of the animals will die within the first couple days after bleeding. Narrator: Bled crabs become disoriented and weak for a period of time, and ...

Charles River and three other US companies harvest crabs for their blood, which they use to produce a test that detects ... regulators at the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, which ...

As the weather warms each year on Cape Cod, an ancient species older than dinosaurs crawls up just below the sandy shores to spawn. Then in the midst of their mass mating event, the unlucky ones ...

A coalition of pharmaceutical companies and conservation groups launched the Sustainability Scorecard for Endotoxin Testing ...

Horseshoe crab blood is a vital resource to the medical ... to 25% of the animals will die within the first couple days after bleeding. Narrator: Bled crabs become disoriented and weak for a ...

Students bleed a horseshoe crab to replicate the biomedical process used to procure Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), a product used to ensure vaccines are free of bacterial contamination.

No, it's not science fiction, just plain old science. We're talking about the horseshoe crab. For decades we've needed them, and their blood, to help us discover human medicines. They're being ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (CN) — Environmental advocates asked a federal judge Friday to block the planned blood harvest of thousands of horseshoe crabs in a South Carolina wildlife refuge. The conservation ...

One thing that makes the horseshoe crab unique is that its blood helps save our lives, he continued. It is said that its blood runs blue, however, its original color is semi-transparent milky white.