For decades, drug companies have depended on a component in the blood of the horseshoe crab to test injectable medicines, including vaccines, for dangerous bacterial contaminants called endotoxins.

Surf on a beach at sunset features a horseshoe crab upside down in the water and several others nearby. Regulatory changes may make the pharmaceutical industry less reliant on horseshoe crabs for ...

ACROBiosystem's SAFENSURE ™ Recombinant Factor C Endotoxin Detection Kit is a novel endotoxin detection kit powered by recombinant Factor C technology. Comparable to LAL method - The endpoint ...

Modern medicine still depends on this animal’s blood to test for bacteria in vaccines. And an alternative test requires further study. By James Gorman For decades, drug companies have depended on a ...