"If you have ever gotten a vaccine or received an intravenous drug and did not come down with a potentially life-threatening fever, you can thank a horseshoe crab."
November 15, 2023
Horseshoe crab blood is vital for testing intravenous drugs, but new synthetic alternatives could mean pharma won’t bleed this unique species dry.
Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Kristoffer Whitney and Science, Technology, and Public Policy master's degree student Jolie Crunelle recently shared research in The Conversation that explains how horseshoe crabs have become so important in modern medicine. Their work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2121146, as well as the Leverhulme Trust through a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant. Additionally, Crunelle receives funding from the Aberg Family Fellowship at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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