With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The fine structure of the amebocyte (hemocyte) in the blood of Limulus polyphemus was reinvestigated regarding its normal state to resolve ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

Often referred to as a living fossil, the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is one of the most-studied invertebrate animals in the world. It has served as a model in Nobel Prize–winning eye ...

Few people probably are aware that amebocytes from horseshoe crabs are indispensable for modern medicine. They are the only known source of Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), a reagent extraordinarily ...

Fear at first sight: That was Jack Levin's reaction upon meeting the creature that put him on the path to lasting scientific achievement. The year was 1963, two years before Levin would begin a ...

Specimens of urethral exúdate from 200 men with uncomplicated urethritis were tested for Neisseria gonorrhoeae by the limulus amebocyte lysate assay, culture on modified ThayerMartin medium, and ...

During 2020, COVID-19 vaccines were created in record time. Nature plays a huge part in the medicines we rely on every day. And when it comes to vaccines, we have horseshoe crabs and their blood to ...

It fuels the journeys of shorebirds along the Eastern Seaboard and feeds some loggerhead sea turtles and sharks. The horseshoe crab is intricately woven into the web of life. Yet this harmless and ...

The good folks at Basement Supercomputing have published a white paper comparing one of the company’s on-prem Limulus personal HPC appliance to Amazon EC2 Cloud instances. The economics are quite ...