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 ...

Antimicrobial peptides derived from a crab and a spider may provide the pathway to overcoming drug resistance in advanced melanoma. QUT researchers based at Brisbane's Translational Research ...

On Nov. 1, the U.S. Pharmacopeia Microbiology Expert Committee published guidelines that removed a significant barrier holding the pharmaceutical industry back from replacing horseshoe crab-derived ...