Once part of their blood has been collected the crabs are returned to the sea. Charles River has discovered ways to reduce the amount of LAL needed to perform testing and says it returns the crabs to ...

Every year in May when high tide coincides with the full moon, horseshoe crabs convene on the beaches of the mid-Atlantic coast to lay millions of eggs. At the same time, migratory shorebirds on their ...

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2121146, as well as the Leverhulme Trust through a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant. Any opinions, ...

Ensuring the safety of medical products, such as drugs, biologics, or devices, requires careful testing for contaminants. Bacterial endotoxins are a major concern for pharmaceutical manufacturers ...

A chemical compound found in the blood of horseshoe crabs is widely used in the biomedical community to test for the presence of bacterial exposure or infection. This limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) ...