There are a lot of questions as to how blood harvesting affects the American horseshoe crab population, but some researchers are dedicated to the cause of protecting such a significant resource.

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 ...

She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that "no-one really knows the impact the withdrawal of blood has on the life of that crab" when they're put back alive. American horseshoe crabs are now ...

Horseshoe crab blood contains a special amebocyte that is separated and then used in FDA testing. There's a lot of questions as to how blood harvesting affects the American horseshoe crab ...

What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear alien, but their history as earthlings is pretty impressive. They’ve been around for 450 million years, predating the ...

In contrast with these findings, commercial amebocyte lysates of the American horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus gave equivocal and inconsistent results. The possibility that our results were due ...

"Horseshoe crab eggs are incredibly nutrient dense, sustaining the federally threatened red knot on their long migratory journey," said American Bird Conservancy Vice President Steve Holmer.

The city-run Kasaoka Horseshoe Crab Museum is housed in a building modeled after the brackish water arthropod. According to curator Kojiro Azumakawa, the horseshoe crab has a bowl-shaped smooth ...

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QUT researchers based at Brisbane's Translational Research Institute (TRI) have modified the peptides from the Brazilian tarantula and the Japanese horseshoe crab and found they can kill samples ...